Agriculture

When Honduras Outreach started working in the Agalta Valley, volunteers recognized nutrition as the glaring need. With help from North American experts, we began training Hondurans in better farming techniques to raise healthier food in higher quantities.

Rancho el Paraiso is a teaching and demonstration farm for the whole valley. Much of what is taught and learned is a result from assistance of volunteers and visiting experts. It is our dream that the people in the area will be able to feed their families and run profitable farms entirely on their own. With help from North American experts, we have been able to train Hondurans in better farming and ranching techniques to raise healthier food in higher quantities. We hope to reach a point when the Ranch will be purchasing all produce, poultry, and meat needs from local farmers.

Since the Spring of 2006, we have offered classes and training through our Agriculture/Vocational school at Rancho el Paraiso. The Agricultural School is a 10-week course concentrating on teaching Hondurans how to be more successful in an agrarian society by introducing new foods through improved animal raising and farming techniques. Each student is selected by their village and the graduate is required to select a project they can begin in their own community. All our agriculture projects require knowledge sharing. Participants in our programs must teach others in their communities so we can expand the network of knowledge throughout the valley. Through the vocational school, the villages have set up cooperatives where different villages now help each other learn and improve on ranching and farming techniques.