Safely past the guy with the revolver! Rose farms are huge sprawling affairs in Ecuador. The smells in the greenhouses are a mixture of growing vegetation and warm plastic, plus an agricultural input or two in the form of fertilizer and fungicide. They are very familiar smells to those within the grower community. Outside the greenhouses the sunlight bounces off hectares of plastic, snow melt water gurgles through the properties via eucalyptus lined irrigation canals, and everywhere there is fresh mown grass, manicured pathways, and landscaping, along with perhaps a soccer field complete with rustic stadium or even a bull ring! (more…)