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The forests where we work in Honduras are home to all sorts of fantastic creatures, such as this little beast – the Corytophanes cristatus lizard. Each family who takes up Inga alley cropping brings...

Inga Lives Up To Farmer Expectations

Honduran farmer Jacobo now has several years’ experience with Inga alley cropping. Seeing how well the system has functioned for him over the last few years, Jacobo is now converting the land shown here...

Project Center Land Transformed

Our Project Centre lands has been transformed. A year ago this was grassland – now it is barely recognisable. The Inga trees are several meters high already and are beginning to shade out the...

Local farmers and friends pitch in to help out Guadalupe, one of our newest Inga farmers, as he gets started on his way to a secure and sustainable livelihood.

And we don’t just have a brand new tree nursery – we also now have a whole new set of Pepper Propagating Units up and running at our Project Center in Honduras.

New Nursery Complete and In Use!

The new tree nursery in Honduras is complete and in use! Here the team are working to set out hundreds of cuttings of black pepper, one of the best cash crops to grow within...

Always a Welcome Sight

As more and more families in Honduras join our project, we need ever more Inga seeds. As our own Inga seed orchard isn’t yet mature, we’re always on the lookout for more seed, meaning...

Living Stakes Spring to Life

A while back we posted a picture of the living stakes we had planted for growing pepper vines using Inga alley cropping. At the time the living stakes didn’t look very convincingly living so...

Creating Biological Corridors

Inga trees can also be used to support reforestation work and create biological corridors of forest across degraded land. This demo biological corridor planted by our Director in 1999 has now been transformed from...

New Team Member Pablo Hard at Work

Pablo, the newest member of our Honduran team, busy helping a farmer from the neighbouring village to plant out a new field of Inga allies. The first step is to measure the contours on...