Farm Tour and Puerto Rican Cooking Class using Medicinal Plants
Overview
This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food in Moca. Susimar is a chemist by profession with 12 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Since 2011, she started working with native medicinal plants that grow in Puerto Rico. These plants have wonderful medicinal benefits and Susimar wishes to share this knowledge with locals and travelers.
- Off the beaten path experience in Moca: connect with nature, learn about the local flora, and cook a Puerto Rican meal
- Rural farm tour: learn about endemic and native plants of Puerto Rico and their medicinal uses
- 2-hour hands-on Puerto Rican cooking class: learn to cook a Puerto Rican meal using native medicinal plants
- Get insight on local ingredients, culinary traditions and culture
- Enjoy a home cooked meal prepared using family recipes and herbs and plants grown locally
What's Included
- All Fees and Taxes
- Home cooked meal
- Gratuities
- Private farm tour and cooking class with Susimar
- Hotel pick up and drop off
Meeting Location
Calle Del Parque
Moca 00676, Puerto Rico
Detailed check-in instructions, including the exact address, are provided with your booking confirmation.
This activity ends back at the meeting point.
What To Expect
This is a unique opportunity in Moca to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Start your fun, educational experience in Moca with a rural farm tour. Learn about endemic and native plants of Puerto Rico and their medicinal uses. Learn about its benefits, characteristics, uses and how it can be used in cooking a Puerto Rican meal. Susimar will teach you the scientific names, where you can get it, how you can grow it, and its care.
Once you learn to identify, collect and taste the native medicinal plants of Puerto Rico, Susimar will teach you how to cook with it. In your 2-hour hands-on Puerto Rican cooking class learn to cook three dishes from scratch. Learn to cook traditional Puerto Rican dishes using family recipes and local ingredients. You will join Susimar in her outdoor kitchen and help her make a beverage with seasonal fruit, a salad with herbs that you will hand pick from the farm, and a comforting healing soup with a homemade dressing. Please note the menu is seasonal and changes depending on the availability of herbs and plants. After you cook, sit down at her outdoor porch table to enjoy the light but delicious meal you helped prepare.
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- If any travelers in your party have any allergies, dietary restrictions or cooking preferences please advise at time of booking
- Menu may vary depending on the season
- Private, personalized experience
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- As there is no public transportation in Moca, Susimar suggests arriving to the farm with your own vehicle, parking is available - she will meet you at Supermercado Agranel.
- Please wear comfortable clothing, closed shoes and a cap.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Activity code: C-7626P687
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Frequently Asked Questions (6)
The answers provided below were previously given in response to questions from City Boat Tours customers.
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- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the tour start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the tour start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the tour start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the tour local time (AST).
- All Fees and Taxes.
- Home cooked meal.
- Gratuities.
- Private farm tour and cooking class with Susimar.
- Hotel pick up and drop off.
The minimum age to participate is 5. This tour requires at least one adult to accompany children..
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Apr 2025Accessibility information for the Farm Tour and Puerto Rican Cooking Class using Medicinal Plants is as follows:
- Public transportation options are available nearby
Detailed check-in instructions – including meeting point address, Google map, and parking information – for Farm Tour and Puerto Rican Cooking Class using Medicinal Plants will be included in your confirmation email from City Boat Tours. Please be sure to double and triple check your email address is correct at checkout so this important email makes its way to you!
Mar 2024What's Included
- All Fees and Taxes
- Home cooked meal
- Gratuities
- Private farm tour and cooking class with Susimar
- Hotel pick up and drop off
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- If any travelers in your party have any allergies, dietary restrictions or cooking preferences please advise at time of booking
- Menu may vary depending on the season
- Private, personalized experience
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- As there is no public transportation in Moca, Susimar suggests arriving to the farm with your own vehicle, parking is available - she will meet you at Supermercado Agranel.
- Please wear comfortable clothing, closed shoes and a cap.
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