Inga Foundation Blog Blog

Growing a Sustainable Income

As well as using Inga to grow food, families can also use it for cash crops, providing a reliable and sustainable income. One of the best cash crops to grow with Inga is pepper....

Inga Event at the Eden Project a Big Success

Our director, Mike Hands, giving a talk in front of the Inga alley exhibit at the Eden Project earlier this week. The talk was followed by a film screening about our work and the...

Projects Gathering Pace In Honduras

The number of local farmers interested in our work in Honduras is growing week by week. Marvin is one of the newest farmers to make the decision to give up slash and burn and...

Inga taking root in El Pital Village

Having finished planting his first plot of Inga alleys, local farmer Martin is now starting on a second. Today Pablo, another Inga farmer from the village, called in to lend a helping hand with...

A Great Piece of Appropriate Technology

We teach every farmer who joins our projects to make these A-frames which allow them to work out where the contours lie on their land so they can plant their Inga alleys on contour...

Paulino’s New Inga Alleys Rapidly Taking Shape

Though still less than 6 months old, local farmer Paulino’s Inga alleys are rapidly taking shape. 18 months and they will be ready for use, freeing Paulino from the long weeks each year he...

A Life Line For Farmers on Steep Mountain Land

Marvin and his family are yet another example of a Honduran family forced to make a living on incredibly steep land like this.  Through taking up Inga alley-cropping, these families can stop the constant...

Inga Foundation May Expand Its Work to Haiti

Haiti is infamous for the level of deforestation across the country and soil erosion is a huge problem for local farmers. Two members of Haitian NGO the Lambi Fund recently came out to Honduras...