We spent a week in July visiting the Inga Foundation project in northern Honduras with the children, before school and university got underway.
It was a wonderful experience and it enabled us on this occasion to meet with the farmers and families actually living and working with the system – it is safe to say we are hugely impressed and moved by the very obvious positive impact that Mike Hands and his wonderful team are having in this desperately impoverished corner of rural central America.
Out in the Inga alleys high up in the Cangrejal valley, we learned about the real-world success of the project, which we could see for ourselves in the soil mulch.
One farmer clearly demonstrated the value of the system – on the left in the photo he is holding up maize grown in the classic way on impoverished ground using chemical inputs; and on the right you see the organic product from the Inga system – could there be a clearer example of the results?!
In the tropical climate there are plenty of Heliconia plants – here is just one, and you can see the similarity with our logo. In these central American humid conditions, they grow easily and quickly – whereas in our office in Normandy they require special attention and liberal quantities of Terra Fertilis to thrive!
Some interesting, and rather sad, roadkill that Luis is moving out of the way. We came across this on our drive up the valley to visit remote farmers and to hear their stories of the impact of the Inga system.
A beautiful boa constrictor, evidently hit by a vehicle earlier in the morning. Much as I’m generally afraid of snakes, this is a shame to see such a magnificent animal like this.