The Guatemalan mountains are no different than Chicago because in both places you must start with the soil. A big part of the AFOPADI projects is teaching and creating the means to produce enough organic compost for people to amend the soil since the natural conditions are not fertile enough to grow most food crops.Each village has its own challenges; in Casaca, one of them is that there is not enough land to feed all the people, so getting as much yield in a sustainable fashion is a long-term goal.
Above you can see the condition of a newly-acquired piece of land on a hillside outside Casaca. The rock is made of a chalky substance that can, with much manual labor, be broken down.
Below are the fruits of that and much subsequent amending with organic compost. The bottom growing plot looked like the one above during my last visit a year and a half ago.
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