This December 1st, FSM held a closing ceremony for a food security project that was developed over a three year period in the two communities of El Progreso and Ojos de Agua, which are both located in the municipality of Torola. Financed by IRISH Aid, executed by the FSM, and coordinated by FSM agronomist, Ismael [...]

FSM agronomist Carlos Diaz is working to create a fruit tree nursery with students ranging from the fourth grade until high school. The students come from 10 different schools throughout the two municipalities of Meanguera and Jocoaitique. Most of the students involved in the creating the nursery are already organized in environmental groups called ‘Guardianes [...]

Lukas, an agronomist from the Fundacion, and I motored to San Francisco St. Lucia, the canton of El Volcancillo. The purpose of the visit was to verify if the organic fertilizer that had been prepared more than 25 days before was ready to bag and distribute to the 16 families that had helped to prepare [...]

Last week, I spent a morning in the community of San Francisco, Jocoatique, making two different types of organic fertilizer with a group community members led by an agronomist from the Segundo Montes Foundation. The production and application of organic fertilizer is one of the components of a three-year project that focuses on the promotion [...]

Atilio and Neftali began planting their corn field last week, now that winter is finally here and rain falls every day. Many people planted the first week of May after the first heavy rains began, yet were faced with a drought of almost two weeks. They had to wait until the rain came again in [...]