Cooking up a sustainable supper
Cooking up a sustainable supper – Every household here needs firewood to cook and acquiring it often carries heavy costs – either financially if families have to buy it or in terms of time...
Cooking up a sustainable supper – Every household here needs firewood to cook and acquiring it often carries heavy costs – either financially if families have to buy it or in terms of time...
Once you clear the forest here, its only a matter of time before any streams or water sources disappear too – which is why Marcos is carefully tending these 4000 germinating Inga seeds which...
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...
When Hurricane Mitch struck it completely destroyed this bridge, along with nearly every other bridge in the country. For Honduras the only real defense against this kind of disaster is the flood control the...
Just another day in the office for our Honduran Project Director as he pauses to take a business call deep in the rainforest in the Cangrajal valley – local people and other organisations are...
Meet the charismatic Don Santiago – a local farmer and beekeeper who is planting Inga alleys for the sake of his bees. The inventive Santiago may be the first to do this, but with...
Here’s our very own Luis in the beautiful ‘forest’ of coffee and Inga that he has created on his own farm. Above is a canopy of Inga trees, and below are hundreds of coffee...
Perhaps we should add to the Inga tree’s already impressive list of abilities, the way it can keep the kids happily distracted while we explain the concept of alley cropping to their parents. Inga...
The path up to this La Muralla passes field after field of slashed and burnt land just like this. But local farmer Pablo planting his land with Inga seedlings has already generated quite a...
Believe it or not, this is a freshly planted pasture field. Apparently cows can manage to walk up slopes this steep but they do sometimes slip and fall to their deaths. With farmers forced...