Inga Foundation Blog Blog

In need of a new vehicle

We really need a second vehicle so we can get out and support the all the farmers taking up Inga in the many communities where we work. Really we need the funds to buy...

Something for the Children

Just as you can see Inga as the slash & burn farmer’s version of a pension plan, you can also view it as creating an inheritance. Slashed and burnt land only becomes more degraded...

Vote of Confidence from Carla

Lovely bubbly Carla, one of the young people from Las Mangas community who came to help us with our work today, injecting some extra enthusiasm and giving her opinion on Inga alley cropping.

Seeing is Believing

Sat beside a stack of Inga firewood and overlooking Faustino’s healthy Inga-grown maize crop – the perfect place to discuss all the reasons to switch from slash and burn to sustainable alley cropping.

Defeating the weeds

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...

Protecting La Ceiba City

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...

A Job Well Done

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...

Searching for Inga Seed

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...

No more long weeks spent weeding

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...

The Future of Cuero y Salado Wildlife Reserve

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...