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Costa Rica | The Monkey Farm | Free Tour of the Farm

Costa Rica | The Monkey Farm | Free Tour of the Farm

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Overview

  • Learn to milk our goats, then bottle feed a baby lamb or pig with the fresh goat milk
  • Learn the curative properties of our many medicinal plants, including moringa, senna, insulin, lemon balm and more.
  • Pick, learn to brew and drink your own homemade medicinal tea
  • Meet and pet “Miss Piggy”
  • Hold a baby lamb or goat, hold a baby chicken or rabbit
  • Discover the benefits of growing food in our Aquaponics system and feed our fish and turtles
  • Meet our tiny stingless “Mariola” bees that produce a very high quality medicinal honey
  • Visit our “upper gardens” and volunteer casitas and hear the magical story of their inhabitants
  • Receive Free Moringa seeds with every visit and learn about our Ambassador program

We do fun-filled interactive tours by advance reservation only.

IMPORTANT to NOTE: We are NOT a zoo. Only a licensed zoo is allowed to display monkeys or other wildlife in cages for the public to see. We do not keep monkeys on display in cages. All the monkeys that live on the farm are free range. This means that you are not guaranteed monkeys will be in sight when you visit.

Length: The tours generally last about 1 1/2 hour.

Days: Tours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 9:00 a.m.

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Contact The Monkey Farm for scheduling and availability.

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Ethics

At Terra Incognita we support tours that do good in the world. They must help conserve the environment, support local people and provide educational opportunities for guests and staff, or be actively working to improve in these areas.

What conservation activities do you support through the tour, and your wider operations?

Monkey Rescue, reforestation, water conservation, agroforestry, aquaponics and more.

How does the tour support local people?

We feed the homeless weekly, take them in when they want to get clean and sober, give Free Equine therapy to children with handicaps weekly, and teach English to locals for free two nights a week.

What type of environmental education activities do you incorporate into your tour?

We teach all guests how to grow food with minimal space and minimal water. We also teach about medicinal plants.

Top 5 achievements

1. Rainwater collection

2. Growing our own food

3. Food forest with swales

4. Aquaponics

5. Biochar use in farming

What new sustainability steps or initiatives do you plan to take next?

Making our own biochar, planting more food forests including for the monkeys, teaching aquaponics to locals, increasing rainwater collection, retention ponds to keep our well charged throughout the year.

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The Monkey Farm

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About Company

The Monkey Farm is in the process of creating what we believe to be the first wildlife rescue center in the world that will be completely self-sufficient and sustainable. We are a group of volunteers from all over the world, who are turning an old farm into a monkey and wildlife rescue center, while living and learning on site.

Our hope is that our revolutionary self-sufficient and sustainable monkey and wildlife rescue center will become the model for future sanctuaries and rescue centers to follow worldwide.

All rescue centers in the world that we know of, are dependent on outside sources for water, energy, and food to feed both the wildlife and the animal care givers.  This means that if a natural disaster or any type of emergency were to happen, the animals could be in serious danger of not being able to be cared for.  We intend to create a rescue center model that is self-sufficient in every way.

There is no charge for volunteers to live and learn on the farm. We live at the farm for a minimum of a month, but the average stay is two months, with no limit to how long we can stay. We have an aquaponics system to grow both fish, fruit, vegetables and herbs. We also have our own bees producing a high-quality medicinal honey. We milk our own goats and make cheese, yogurt, kefir and ice cream.

We care as much about our fellow men as we do animals. Every Tuesday evening at 7:00, we feed the poor and homeless in nearby Playas del Coco. On Monday and Wednesday evenings, from 6:00 to 8:00, we teach English to native adults who would like to get better jobs to provide for their families. Every Saturday morning, you will find us providing Free Equine therapy at the farm to local children with handicaps.

There is no government funding for programs as unique as ours. Other than donations, all of this is supported only by volunteer guided horseback riding through the jungle and on the beach. Come and play with our baby animals, see the wildlife, learn about aquaponics, and see what we are doing! We love visitors!

The Monkey Farm is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization registered in the United States, ID #81-1664389, and also a registered NGO in Costa Rica.

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Cost

Donation: $10 per person paid in advance. Children under 5 years old are free.

vicki@themonkeyfarm.org
www.themonkeyfarm.org

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