Agroforestry the Peruvian Amazon

"Los arboles están creciendo muy rápido, pronto vamos a tener un terreno deforestado con bosque de producción permanente para garantizar el banco de semillas. Nuestro animales también están aumentando. Eso se llama permacultura."

"The trees are growing quickly, soon we will have a previously deforested land turned into a forest that will become a permanent seed bank. Our animals are increasing in number. This is called permaculture."

Marcos Urquia Maynas, our director of Permaculture, is excited and confident by the strong start to 2018. Marcos is working closely with several exceptional Shipibo youth leaders from the Community of Santa Clara. The team has begun the final stage of setting up the Permaculture site in Santa Clara with the goal to reforest one hectare of land in 2018.

In addition to the reforestation project, the youth leaders of Santa Clara are also working on the research and analysis of an ecological chicken rearing coop. They are collaborating with us on assessing best practices and addressing climate conditions of the Amazon to refine a prototype that can survive and thrive in the community. 

We have begun the transition of the permaculture site to the community of Santa Clara and with the help of Marcos, we are putting on workshops explaining the principes of permaculture in a culturally relevant way. These workshops are starting this week and we are looking forward to analyzing this first workshops to make these workshops interactive, accesible, and motivating so people in the community can see the value of permaculture in their own lives and gardens.