Helpful Links

EARTH University / LaFlor campus websites: 

 http://www.earth.ac.cr/ing/info_general_laflor.php

 http://www.earth.ac.cr/ing/info_general_localizacion.php  

EARTH Foundation - LaFlor page: http://www.earth-usa.org/Page5344.aspx 

EARTH University Products / Whole Foods Markets: http://www.earth-brand.org/index.php 

Other Costa Rica educational intuitions: 

Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) http://www.ucr.ac.cr/ 

Universidad Nacional http://www.una.ac.cr/ 

Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica  http://www.tec.cr/sites/Home/Pages/default.aspx 

Other Agriculture & Natural Resource Institutions & Organizations

Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE) http://www.aiaee.org/ 

InBio  http://www.inbio.ac.cr 

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)  http://www.iica.int/Eng/Pages/default.aspx 

 

Escuela de Jardinera:  Ecuador Horticulture Program, August 2009: http://international_extension.ifas.ufl.edu/Ecuador_Hort_2009/Ecuador_Hort_links.shtml

 

Press releases / news & journal articles:

La Flor campus to promote community development.  [The Guanacaste Journal, 5/2006] http://www.journalcr.com/news_article.php?article=675 

"Whole Foods Market Is Going Bananas" [News release]  http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2007/march/27/nac05.htm 

Technical Horticulture:   websites and class handouts

• Reference Book List  (under development by Team LaFlor):  Reference Books 

• EARTH Guacimo Ethnobotanical Garden: http://www.uga.edu/ethnobot/SisCostaRica.html and http://www.earth.ac.cr/multimedia/medicinales/jardin_etnobotanico.swf 

• CR MAG Virtual Library links to pdf  documents /  DOCUMENTOS EN TEXTO COMPLETO http://www.mag.go.cr/bibliotecavirtual/indice_documentos_texto_completo.html 

• Malezas de Costa Rica [Weeds of Costa Rica] Link to CD files  -  on line at http://laflor.ifas.ufl.edu/Weeds%20of%20CR/cd/MALEZASDECOSTARICA.html 

• Landscape Best Management Practices 
  • “Florida Green Industries: Best Management Practices for Protection of Water Resources in Florida” - (757kb)
  •  “INDUSTRIAS EN ÁREAS VERDES DE FLORIDA Las Prácticas Más Adecuadas Para la Conservación del Agua en Florida” - (840kb .pdf)
  • (Colorado)  http://www.greenco.org/bmp_list.htm 
    

Staff survival websites:

Currency Converter  (US dollars to/from Costa Rica colones)  

http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic  or  http://www.vacationcity.com/costa-rica/money/ 

Costa Rica Links page  http://www.kostaryka.org/central2489/ 

Dictionaries and Translation sites

Professor Larry's  Words for the Garden / Palabras por la Jardin - English to Spanish Word List     Over 1375 words used by farmers, nursery workers and landscapers has been complied by our EARTH team.   A draft of this document is available on request as an Excel Spreadsheet file; please contact the webmaster.

IICA & USDA National Agricultural Library -  Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary of Agricultural Terms in both Spanish and English,  2008 edition: http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/agt/agt.shtml 

A fairly comprehensive dictionary of "Tico" terms: http://lacarretica.com/diccionario/index.asp

FREE Translator websites:   {Note: we have found that these program do not adequately translate into final documents without extensive review! }

• Alta Vista Babelfish  http://babelfish.altavista.com/      
• Paralink  http://translation2.paralink.com/