We're committed to preserve the environment with more than brave words. La Garza's facilities are energy efficient. We recycle our own garbage. We conserve energy with laundry (re-use your towels, please, and we change sheets every three days). We use energy-efficient lighting. We have designed the rooms, and restaurant, to stay cool without air conditioning (although it is available if you'd like it).

Many clients have been so impressed with the natural ease of the relationships between the children visiting and the children living here that we were requested to open a facility for youth to stay as summer farm interns. We will soon complete a "dormitory" for our foreign guests, who will work on the farm, learn Spanish, and enjoy connecting with the earth and the simpler pleasures of life while staying with us for extended periods. In addition to working as part of an agricultural community (they will be riding horses a lot doing their chores), the interns will have opportunities to travel in the northern Costa Rican region, to explore caves, go fishing, ride bikes, join in the local fiestas, climb trees, camp, learn to use tools and machetes and probably drive a tractor. They will also learn a lot about animals, both domesticated and wild. There is a self-confidence learned when living close to the earth, and they will form friendships with people very unlike themselves. The intern program is open to both boys and girls.