The Mesoamerican Development Institute (MDI) is partnering with the University of Massachusetts to address threats to tropical forests and water resources in the coffee producing regions surrounding national parks in…
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The third public participation workshop on the establishment of the Yoro Biological Corridor will take place on April 25th in the city of Morazán, Yoro, Honduras on behalf of the…
Musings from a bird watcher: Being someone who loves birds, I enjoy the starkness of the winter months with forays to the sea to search for birds down from the…
The Yoro Biological Corridor is a public/private sector initiative of the Honduran Forest, Park and Wildlife Services (Forest Conservation Institute) and the 11 municipalities of the Department of Yoro, Honduras. …
The establishment of the Yoro Biological Corridor Initiative by the government of Honduras was officially announced by Ángel Matute, director of the National Institute for Forest Conservation Protected Areas and…
It is now peak harvest season for Cafe Solar, which means that everyone in Honduras is working flat out. The 250 or so farm families high in the Yoro mountains…
It’s harvest time for Cafe Solar. All over those 250 or so coffee farms in the Yoro mountains, family members are busy dawn to dusk. They are picking coffee cherries,…
Every day, in harvest season, the co-op receives more “wet beans” — coffee beans now freed from the pulp and skin that enclosed them in the coffee cherry, but still…
Each day, more beans arrive at the co-op for processing. Just 24 hours prior to arriving they were still inside ripe coffee cherries hanging on the tree, and by now…
The bean intake process begins long before the harvest,” explains Rich Trubey, program developer and co-founder of the Massachusetts-based Mesoamerican Development Institute. MDI works with Co-operativa COMISUYL on cultivation techniques…
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