As I stood in Parque Central at 6:30am on a Sunday morning, surrounded by thousands of other enthusiastic contestants performing all manner of strange warm-ups and stretches (I’ve devided that this is a tactic to put the opposition off – the stranger the move, the more professional you look), with a Guatemalan reggaeton version of [...]

So after a number of requests for an update on the Aquaponics project, I find myself with a little time to sit down (as I recover from a kidney infection) and put together a summary of what has been going on. As I must continually remind myself, things go much slower here than I am [...]

The Medio Maraton Las Rosas is a half marathon held each year around the city of Antigua, Guatemala. I have been thinking about participating in this marathon since I first arrived here in Antigua, but knew in the back of my mind that by the time it came around I would find myself a suitable [...]

One morning, I woke up withthe word “Aquaponics” in my head…after spending the last few weeks researching and making contact with various experts, I am convinced that aquaponics could offer us an environmentally sustainable system to combat malnutrition in poor rural villages in Guatemala. I am now starting the learning and development phase, where I convert my friend’s backyard fishpond into an aquaponics experiment, and hopefully come up with something we can start building for low-cost using locally available materials.