Earth University gives students the opportunity to learn about sustainable and international agriculture hands on. Being accepted into the Earth University is the opportunity of a lifetime but surviving the rigorous curriculum can be even more difficult. Students are placed outside of their comfort zone and experience hands on learning in an intense degree program. Earth University has a longstanding partnership with the University of Missouri and offers semester programs for college students who want to enhance their agriculture knowledge. While touring sections of the thousands of acres of Earth University fields, we saw a variety of crops and farming habits in use.
A grove of harvested mango trees. Mango's are one of Costa Rica's highest exported crops and the industry expands the country's economy by providing numerous jobs for laborers and income from mango sales. All profits from the Earth University mango groves goes directly to the students for scholarships.
Our Earth University tour guide stood in a newly harvested field. Crop rotation is used in this field and by next year there will be a different variety of crop growing.
Palm trees act as a barrier for the field irrigation system.
Rice fields along the mountainside.
Endless rows of sugar cane engulf hundreds of acres at Earth University. The sugar cane stalks grow over eight feet tall and the crop is very durable. You could get lost in a sugar cane field just as easily as in a Missouri corn field.
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