Seed Festival – Tinamaste 2022

AUTHOR: Vida Autentica Team

Tinamaste has magic, and it is easy to discover the reason. With just 2,850 inhabitants, Tinamaste is a small paradise in the canton of Pérez Zeledón in Costa Rica.

It is enough to walk its lonely dirt roads full of wild vegetation and green slopes where animals seem to be happily grazing. Visit the river of large rocks with its powerful lullaby that accompanies the silent nights of frog songs and stars. It is enough to see its rivers and waterfalls where people like to swim and share with their friends on sunny days.

It is the: hi! when someone greets their neighbors or a stranger; it is the dog that walks with charm, the colored houses with open doors, the yellow mangoes in the middle of the street, the nests of the oropendola birds that hang from the palm trees, the flowers that brighten everything, the most spectacular sunsets, the most inspiring views that make you surrender to the beauty and power of the mountain surrounded by mist and magic.

It is enough to understand that in this canton, friendly, discreet, and conscientious people try to live a life in harmony with their surroundings. I am talking about people who respect, care for, and work on the land. They understand the importance of food sovereignty and the seasons. They know the value and effort behind a product or food grown in conditions conducive to human consumption, free of harmful chemicals. They know about plants, and trees, those who grow plants and food, supply local markets and farmers' markets, and exchange, share, distribute, create, invent, and sell their products and services.

For this reason, the 6th Annual Seed Festival, on June 25 in the Feria Tinamastes location, offered the space to the community so that farms and the public could interact in an environment of awareness to share knowledge and conserve and preserve the value of native seeds.