Sustainable Family Farms  Reducing Poverty and Deforestation in Central America Providence, 2010
Tropical forests
 
Slash – And – Burn Farming
 
Field Trainers
Punta Gorda Yoro & Santa Barbara Kukra Hill & Kukra River  Cocle &  Panama Oeste SHI currently works in four countries: Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua & Panama.
 
 
Family Gardens
Erosion barriers and natural pest control
Reforestation and Agroforestry
Biodiversity and Economic Diversity
Healthy Soils Composting and bocashi Worm composting
 
Improved Stoves
Biodigestors
Smaller World Trips
Join us on a Smaller World Trip  and see SHI’s work first hand Growth is guaranteed…   mud wrestling is optional
 
Planting Hope Restoring Forests Nourishing Communities

Providence Feb 2010

Editor's Notes

  • #13 SHI encourages all participants to include as many trees as possible in their land-use plans. Families like this Mayan family in Belize learn to grow their own seedlings for transplanting onto their farms.
  • #18 Manure from the chickens and other animals is used for compost or fed through a biogas digester that uses anaerobic decomposition to create methane gas. The effluent from the biogas digester is also a powerful liquid, organic fertilizer.