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03/03/2022

Do you want to learn permaculture?

Do you want to learn how to grow an abundant food forest and be self sufficient, or run a small farm business in a way that's in harmony and produces high yields?

This year we are collaborating with the famous Maya Agroforestry legend, Eladio Pop to host a course on traditional Maya forest management, organic farming and tropical permaculture....that includes growing cacao and chocolate production.

If you're interested in learning how to farm organically in a tropical climate with the aim of becoming self sufficient and running a small or medium farming business, come and stay with Eladio and his family for 7 days and partake in our life changing Indigenous Permaculture and Agroforestry course...............................More info and sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/a665ddf5e5e7/indigenous-permaculture

You can see a tour of Eladio's inspirational Eco farm and the ancient the Maya chocolate making process here in https://youtu.be/IerjBbKBhIc

02/03/2022

01/03/2022

How many of these can you identify?

Its time to return to knowing about our local wildlife, our ecosystems depends on us restoring biodiversity and creating sympathetic habitat for local wildlife with native plants that are designed to support them.

This family in the Belize jungle, live self sufficiently from a farm that looks like a forest.

Everything they need is growing around them, from food and medicine to construction material.

Learn how they maintain a biodiverse forest and encourage wildlife and live in harmony with nature, its a wonderful example for us all on how to live sustainably and benefit biodiversity instead of depleting it https://youtu.be/IerjBbKBhIc

24/02/2022

Soil is Life!

22/02/2022

Why do we use native trees for reforestation? Let us count the ways using this poster by Filipino artist Rabin Canuzo.

Together with Philippine Parks & Biodiversity, our grantee, we have produced advocacy materials for our reforestation and community engagement project in Mt. Balagbag, Ipo Watershed.

22/02/2022

21/02/2022

Building materials can be sourced locally at very low costs, clay and sand are in the ground which can be mixed with dry organic matter that grows around us, like straw or coconut husks.

This OFF GRID ECO HOME was built quickly for under $4000 using coconut husks, a low cost alternative to H**p
see more....https://youtu.be/iFHdmvfHXmE

21/02/2022

His secret ingredient was "kudzu compost": https://returntonow.net/2021/09/21/jack-and-the-tomato-stalk/