Costa Rica Conservation Trust

Costa Rica Conservation Trust - Tamara Newton

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Tamara Newton
Pulsing Point Site Supervisor

About Tamara:

Tamara was born in El Salvador and raised both in Central America and in the United States. Being born to a Costa Rican father and U.S. American mother, Tamara is truly a bicultural citizen of the world.

After spending two years as a single mother in the United States, she decided that it would be better to live simply and close to the earth, rather than to continue leaving her child all day with strangers and working long hours for contaminated food, low-income housing and increasing debts. She saved every penny she could and moved back to Latin America and bought a small piece of land in a very rural and undeveloped area of Costa Rica.

Without electricity or any modern conveniences, Tamara built a house for herself and her child and started growing her own food. She now has three healthy and happy children, Judah, Marialba, and Salvador. She says that she may not have much, but she has the knowledge that she has raised her children in a healthy and peaceful environment. She dedicates most of every day of her life to the production and preparation of wholesome organic meals for her three children, and homeschooling and playing with them. She is very glad she had the courage to leave the "8-to-6-absentee-and-always-tired-mom" routine.

She recently went back to work overseeing the organic farm of a local landowner and is hosting guests in her home, Finca Tres Semillas, which she has tranformed into a Costa Rican-style Bed & Breakfast (two jobs her children can be with her). Tamara is an excellent example of someone who has kept her priorities straight in the face of economic difficulties.

She had the courage to make a big change in her life in order to be a good mother. She has sacrificed modern material comforts in exchange for a wholesome life for her children. You will very rarely see children as happy and healthy, both physically and spiritually, as hers. It is an honor to have a woman of her strenth of character join the CRCT team.