More Than Worth It
Father and son proudly give us the tour of their Inga alleys, which are nearly ready for use. It’s taken them a lot of sweat and hard work to get this far, but they...
Father and son proudly give us the tour of their Inga alleys, which are nearly ready for use. It’s taken them a lot of sweat and hard work to get this far, but they...
We spied this beautifully camouflaged moth in our demo biological corridor. Now 14 years old, the biological corridor is converting into a mini patch of rainforest and is full of all kinds of wildlife.
Standing within our demo plots at yesterday’s open day, the team explain how Inga alley cropping can overcome all the problems of slash and burn, providing genuine food security and a sustainable livelihood. By...
We’ve been encouraging these wasps to settle at our new Project Center. They carry a painful sting but its still definitely worth having them around as they provide brilliant natural pest control, helping remove...
Slash and burn farming is devastating the rainforests of Honduras. The only way to stop this is to address the root cause of the problem – hunger. By providing families with food security, Inga...
Completed just a few months ago, our tree nursery in Honduras now contains 45,000 seedlings of rainforest tree species, alongside thousands of Inga seedlings, not to mention hundreds of pepper, cacao and vanilla plants....
One of the most essential elements of our long term strategy to combat slash and burn in Honduras is the creation of a Project Center, complete with demonstration plots, a seed orchard, a large...
A little over a year on and the change to our Inga Alley Demo Plots at CURLA University in Honduras is so dramatic that the site is hardly recognisable!
These little seedlings growing at our Honduran Project Centre are Swietenia macrophylla, commonly known as Big-leaf Mahogany – a rainforest giant that can live up to 350 yrs and reach 200 ft in height.
At the Inga Foundation, we feel its really important to get the whole family involved in making a new start and giving up slash and burn. Here are a couple of the next generation...