Author: Issy

Just talking about ‘weeds’ or ‘grass’ doesn’t really do justice to the tangled mass of head-height vegetation that rapidly takes over any piece of land once the forest is cleared. One of the most...

La Ceiba city sits right beneath the mountains of Pico Bonito National Park and several of the parks rivers flow out to the sea though the city. Ceiba is already prone to flooding and...

Abraham and Luis surveying our nearly empty Project Center tree nursery. Just a few weeks ago this tree nursery was full to bursting with thousands of Inga seedlings. Now practically all of them are...

Thanks to the success of our Open Day we now have a whole new set of farmers eager to start using Inga. More, in fact, than we have enough Inga seed to supply, so...

Pablino and his son and been working hard all week weeding this plot. It’s a thankless task but at least this time they have the comfort of knowing this is one of the very...

This is the beautiful Cuero y Salado Wildlife Reserve, a maze of waterways and mangroves, home to manatees, howler monkeys and much more besides. If Pico Bonito National Park is deforested, the rivers that...

Meet Adán, the newest member of our team here in Honduras! Adán lives in the remote San Rafael, at the front line where slash and burn meets unbroken primary forest, and he is now...

A great piece of appropriate technology, we love teaching farmers how to make and use these brilliantly simple A-Frames. All you need is some wood, a bit of string, a stone and about 15...

As well as food and cash crops, another vital yield from Inga alley cropping is firewood for cooking, otherwise the wood will be taken straight from the forest which means hard work for the...