1 week Work Exchange - Pura Vida Conscious Community with shared meals, permaculture garden, rescue animals
With Monica-Jean Adelaide Smythe, Justine Adelaide Smythe, David Franklin Smythe and Alexander Steller
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Join us as a work-exchange participant, working in the gardens, in the kitchen, and with the animals, or contributing your special skills…we will play and work together in this conscious community, pura vida
About the Leaders
Monica-Jean Adelaide Smythe
Monica-Jean studies performance art and acting as well as working and performing with Shauna Kanter, owner of ‘Voice Theatre’ a live-action and improv theater company in Kingston, NY, and with Patrick Wadden, owner of ‘Arm of the Sea Theater’ a larger-than-life ecologically themed handmade puppet theater at the ‘tidewater center’ in Saugerties, NY. MJ also […]
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Justine graduated with a high honors baccalaureate degree from the Culinary Institute of America and from Cornell with an MBA in hotel and restaurant administration. Ms. Smythe has owned, operated and worked in numerous restaurants including her NY Times critically acclaimed ‘Oasis Café’, the ‘Nikko-Essex House Hotel’, ‘Tavern on the Green Restaurant’ and ‘World Yacht’ […]
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David did culinary apprenticeship in classically organized kitchens with European chefs while in high school near Lake George NY. His first chef’s position was 2 years at ‘The Good Karma Café’, a macrobiotic restaurant in San Francisco. His experience includes working as executive chef at hotels, country clubs and restaurants for 15 years then 30 […]
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presidente at Costa Rica Land and Houses Studied Ciencia económica at Universidad de Costa Rica Went to Liceo de Atenas Lives in Montezuma, Costa Rica From Cóbano, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
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