Reforesting the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil

SINAL has earned itself a new guava orchard! Last month, Sydney and Jorge - two local Brazilian workers who both have quite the green thumbs - planted 150 guava trees. Half are white guavas and half are red guavas. Guavas are a very typical fruit from Brazil and are used in many local dishes. As SINAL promotes healthy, sustainable and local foods, we are working to produce as many native, local fruit trees as we can and then designing recipes to fit them. 

Agroforestry is a great tool we use here at SINAL for reforesting while also producing an edible crop. We hope to use agroforestry as a technique with other local farmers in order to promote reforestation. Guava is a great fruit for agroforestry, as welll as cacau, which we often plant. 

In addition, our natural regeneration project is continuing with great sucess. In fact, a spring that had been dried up for years has returned on its own - a great sign of the water shed health of the region.