What is the history of the finca, how did it start?
Traveling around Latin America in 1981-82 Marga and Pieter fell in love with spacious Bolivia, her authentic culture and people. To stay and live in this new world was so tempting that they left Holland with ease. They bought this promising land and called it “La Víspera” (the Eve), which refers to a celebration of what is to come, a complete new life, full of expectation.

What is their background?
Marga comes from a family where beauty, music, writing, design, painting, gardening, good food, theatre, colours and fabrics were a major focus. She is known as a clear-headed lady, she is a gardener and perceiver. Pieter is a descendant from a family of hermits, pub owners and grocers, and loves building, waterworks, horses, dogs and trees. He is a charismatic and tireless active man.

In Holland they both worked in education for 10 years. It was in that period that Pieter, who has played the piano from an early age, took up a 3 year evening course to become a professional piano tuner. The first 8 years here their revenue came from 4 months-per-year tuning and restoring pianos in whole Bolivia. During that period both came to know this country more profoundly.

The rest of their time they ‘invented’ the finca, by listening to the tunes of their fantasies and asking each other: “Is the playground feeling still there?” This land offered them plenty of space and inspiration to develop all their hidden talents and thus create their own paradise.

Everything feels in balance, and all the details! How did they do it?
Organically, step by step, daily good-attention, by combining passion for gardening with the curves in the soil, using the materials available in the region and good administration. Doing what the Bolivians do: developing different sources of income. By welcoming the surprising talents of all those people who worked on the finca in the course of time. By learning to see setbacks and disappointments as challenges. By being both generous & practical in answer to the needs of guests.

The Finca is a playground, sanctuary, home and working place. This old and vibrant land where traditional farming formed the landscape. We introduced modern biological horticulture, and developed a fusion of both, nowadays known  as permaculture. After all this years the Finca has become one of the most important places to get organic fruit and vegetables, edible flowers, natural medicinal mixtures, delicious teas, seasoning herbs and home-made conserves.
If you are interested in our products, please contact us. We deliver a wide variety of edible flowers, herbs, and vegetables on a daily basis to restaurants, bakeries and tea rooms. We can also send them to your home or you might pick them up at the public transport office in S.C.