📖 From Mayani

Over the years, many of you have followed our journey at Mayani Farms — from leaving corporate life behind to building a more intentional, land-connected way of living here in Puerto Rico. Recently, Sarah was interviewed about one aspect of that journey: the carnivore lifestyle we have personally adopted over the years, how it has […]

Mi esposo y yo dejamos nuestras lucrativas carreras en tecnología en California y compramos una finca en Puerto Rico. Diecisiete años después, seguimos felices con nuestra decisión. A pesar de que mi esposo y mi familia creen que nuestra decisión de salirnos de la matriz y vivir en una finca en las montañas fue espontánea, la verdad

Despite my husband and my family’s belief that our decision to leave the matrix to live on a homestead in the mountains was spontaneous, people don’t just wake up one day and realize they don’t fit in. That moment of clarity is the culmination of years of being different. After all, in high school, I was voted least

By Steven Worthy (staff writer and photographer for The Carolinian) and Sarah Ratliff In an earlier article, I wrote about Puerto Rico in general as a great tropical vacation without a passport being necessary. I touched on getting a rental car, rooms, finding the prefect flight, etc. Now that the decision is made to travel,

If you’re one of the estimated 30,000 newcomers to Puerto Rico from Canada and the U.S. in the last five years—or are considering a move here—you may be drawn in by similar promise as others before you: year‑round good weather, tax-free incentives, coconuts and mangoes ripe for the picking, and a little patch of paradise

I am very active in many groups both on and off Facebook for people doing organic agriculture. Until very recently, I was in a group on Signal for those doing regenerative farming in Puerto Rico. Initially the group seemed very cool. Most of us were either already doing organic farming in Puerto Rico or hoped

I wrote this about 10 years ago, long before I was working full time on Mayani Farms. I have improved my time since I wrote this. 🙂 I spend many hours a day chained to my desk writing articles and providing supportive services to my clients. After several hours of staring at the computer, with

When I met Sarah Ratliff for the first time, it wasn’t while walking through her eco-organic farm in Utuado, but through the glow of a Zoom call. And yet, the connection was immediate. Her presence carried a grounded wisdom, her voice full of both reverence and practicality, as if Puerto Rico itself had taught her

Por cada plántula de árbol frutal o no frutal que vendemos, los clientes nos piden entre 10 y 20 cañas de bambú. Es una de las plantas más versátiles del mundo, si no la más versátil.Las razones son muchas. En este artículo compartiré solo algunos de los muchos beneficios de cultivar bambú. No cubriré ni

Resorts “all-inclusive” frente a playas de arena blanca; los fuertes del Viejo San Juan; El Yunque; la bahía bioluminiscente; la cuna de los tostones, el arroz con gandules y la original piña colada; la música salsa y el coquí… todo eso forma parte de lo que muchos y muchas imaginan como unas vacaciones perfectas en