ITALY – Caudarella: Organic Prickly Pear Farm

Opuntia ficus-indica For the past 3 weeks, we stayed on a prickly pear farm in Sicilia, near Caltagirone. Caltagirone is a town located in southeast/east central Sicily, in the province of Catania.It's a beautiful town and known for its long history of ceramics production [1]. We were introduced to a lot of information about fruit…

ITALY – Vendemmia at Bosco Falconeria

We just finished our first WWOOFing experience at Bosco Falconeria, a 25-acre organic farm in Partinico, Sicily. We learned about organic farming, agriculture "by subtraction," how to maintain vineyards, prune olive trees, make vinegar, and how to harvest grapes and make wine!Bosco Falconeria is an organic farm with primarily grapevines. In our final week at…

Drumrolllllllllllllll please~~~~~~~~~!

In our last post, we promised you exciting news. So here it is! We have thoroughly enjoyed spending the summer with family and friends in Puerto Rico. Fue un verano rico rico en Puerto Rico ❤ And now with the summer coming to a close, our year-long, Vida BoriKor adventure officially begins: WE ARE OFF…

Planning For a Year of Travel

Ohh, the best laid plans. This is a snippet of our "Planning for a Year of Travel" Google spreadsheet. If you've kept up with us since the start, you may know that we have been planning to travel for a year. There are many things we anticipated starting (and completing) by the end of 2020.…