June 22, 2024 Native Kitchen-- Amaranth Colorful, red and yellow stalks of amaranth create a beautiful scenery throughout the garden...

Bus ride to Guatemala May 2024 Traveling from Mexico to Guatemala After two incredible months in Chiapas, Mexico, I traveled down to...

April 24, 2024 The bumpy road to Mitontic Arriving to Mitontic We took a two and a half hour drive north to the municipality of Mitontic....

The Team as CISERP: From left to right: Yareni, me, Cielo Lourdes, and Adolfo (not pictured-- Vicente) April 15, 2023 Arriving to CISERP,...

February 23, 2024 Team meeting with Evelin, Glen and the students I have focused a lot on the organic practices and ideas on how to run...

February 22, 2024   When I arrived to the Organic Learning Center (CAO), Glen gave me a bucket for my room which he told me I could pee...

February 20, 2024   Mountain Microorganisms: MM Soild and Liquid Today Glen sat down with us to give us a lesson on Mountain...

School Visits to CAO's Farm and Vegetable Garden February 17, 2024 David teaching the students to compost and working in the garden David...

February 15, 2024   Rice Hulls A truck full of rice hulls was scheduled to arrive today, so the students were ready with their faces and...

February 13, 2024 Ideas on How to Work with Rural, Small-Scale Farmers Glen (the owner and founder of CAO) brought a group of his friends...

February 12, 2024 Let's Make Bokashi fertilizer Today one of the students, Axel, taught us how to make Bokashi fertilizer. Bokashi is...

February 10, 2024 Natural Beauty in Rural Honduras The students work from Monday to Friday from 5:30 am- 4 pm. On Saturdays they work...

Biodiversity in The Organic Learning Center (CAO) February 9, 2024   Diversification and Polyculture for Greater Biodiversity I am no...

The students from the Organic Learning Center working in the early morning fog February 6, 2024 Arriving to Honduras The great thing...

In December 2023 I graduated from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Hague, Netherlands with a Master's degree in Development...

Organic agroecological farm in Honduras This post may be a bit dense but it gives an explanation as to WHY this topic is important! I try...

Hello, my name is Maggie, and I am starting this blog to share initiatives for sustainable development in Central America and Southern...