Tufts Sustainable Harvest Honduras Trip
June 2008
Don Betillo tells the group how his life has changed since he started working with Sustainable Harvest Honduras just 5 years before:
"Before nothing grew in this field. I didn't know how to farm it and only grew a little corn and beans on my land. It was very hard to get by and have enough for my family. I have learned so much from Jacobo [local SHI field trainer]. With the seeds he has provided and, most importantly, the training I am growing all that you see here, onions, carrots, melons, cabbage and radishes. This is a plot where we have done trainings for the community in bio-char. We used bio-char on one side of the field and left the other plain and you can see how much better the side with the bio-char is growing. We also have learned how to make organic fertilizer from worm castings and I have a fish pond."