Inga Foundation Blog Blog

Honduran Beekeeper Plants Inga Alleys

You might remember Don Santiago, the resourceful farmer and beekeeper who wanted to take up Inga alley cropping because of the benefit it would have to his bees. Well, he’s now in the process...

New Project Centre Taking Shape

The young Inga alleys at our new Project Centre are starting to take shape – in under 2 years they will be mature and ready for use as Demonstration Plots to help us convince...

38,000 Seedlings and Counting…

We’ve just started a whole set of new families on their way toward giving up slash and burn. The first step for each family is to create their own Inga Tree Nursery. We’re still...

New Project Beginning in Congo

  After the Amazon, the Congo Basin is the largest remaining expanse of tropical wilderness in the world – and it is also one of the most threatened. Our Director Mike Hands has just...

What success looks like to us

This is what success looks like – In this Inga plot the harvest continues to improve year on year. When we last visited, the farmer excitedly showed us how the soil in places is...

The word is spreading…

Local farmer Marcos recently introduced us to his brother and helped us convince him to take up Inga too, and the 2 of them are now getting their young cousin involved to ensure when...

Inga Alleys at Eden

Thank you to the team at the Eden Project who today planted out an area of Inga alleys in their Tropical Biome to give their visitors the chance to see alley cropping first hand...

Before and After Inga

The field immediately beside Aladino’s Inga plot is choked in head-high invasive grasses that make achieving any kind of harvest a constant struggle. Just 3 short years ago Aladino’s plot looked identical to this...

In 2 years time…

Alejandro, the local farmer who owns this plot, is right now busy creating a tree nursery full of Inga and coffee seedlings. Give it 2 years and this area will be nearly unrecognisable, covered...