{"id":12192,"date":"2018-06-20t12:04:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-20t12:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/jungle-plants-root-sustainable-harvest-at-kalu-yala\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20t12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20t12:04:46","slug":"jungle-plants-sustainable-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/jungle-plants-sustainable-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"jungle plants root sustainable harvest at kalu yala"},"content":{"rendered":"
by grace wade<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201chere you are looking at a line of papaya, a line of bananas, a line of plantains, and oh! look! a line of baby pineapple,\u201d exclaims zoe st. john, agriculture director of the eco-town kalu yala, as she walks through a small scale agroforestry in the panamanian jungle. rows of alternating crops are integrated with the natural environment, an image of the symbiosis that can exist between humans and the environment.<\/p>\n chickens cluck and strut at edges of the enclosure, which barely seems like an enclosure at all with the plethora of green plants covering almost every square inch. st. john walks closer to the infant pineapple plant and admires its growth with an almost maternal smile. \u201ci am so proud of it! isn\u2019t it fantastic!\u201d<\/p>\n st. john is a tall, bright eyed 25-year-old farmer originally from new orleans. now she lives in the tropical jungles of panama in the developing eco-community of kalu yala. she arrived as an agriculture intern a little more than a year ago and quickly became the director of agriculture when the former director left.<\/p>\n