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Until recently, Colombia was the 13th largest importer of agricultural commodities to the US. Top among them are coffee, tea, and spices, live trees and nursery plants, bananas and plantains, and snack foods. All totaling more than 2.7 billion annually. In this rebroadcast show from 2022 our guest Marco Poehner, who spends about half of each year at his Agua Viva nature preserve in the forested mountains of Colombia and the other half in Monterey California tells Joe Truskot and Steven E. Popp about the wonders of his preserve, how there are four seasons a year in Colombia; two wet and two dry, but for the past 2+ years, resultant of climate change, there have been virtually no dry seasons and what are the impacts this and other factors such as ongoing Coca production, the narco-war, and a new government have had on Colombia’s ag production and the Agua Viva preserve along with the challenges vs. benefits of gardening in an equatorial zone.
