New Life Farm Projects

Though the locals are not tremendously used to eating fish like the river people, we have found that raising tilapia in our lakes is a viable and relatively easy way to produce protein for the youth. The tilapia are omnivorous and if they don’t alsays have feed as sometimes happens when the budget is a little thin they will survive and slowly grow on vegetable matter and insects. Our goal is always have the feed and produce large fish to sell on Holy Week here in Honduras.

God blessed us with 24/7 water that we brought down from the stream from the mountainside of one of our properties and allows us to have multiple uses. We have water oxigenation for the tilapia in three ponds, irrigation by gravity for the corn and beans and vegetables down the hill in front of the Children’s home and the nearby fields even in dry season.

Traditional agriculture in our valley is to use inorganic fertilizers and pesticides and tends toward the ruining of the soil. We have the goal to produce large quantities of compost using all the green and dry material and the cattle fertilizer and give our soil renewed health nutrition and structure. This method has been used with great success in Africa and we hope to implement it at scale here in Honduras.

We have determined that our best, most sustainable use for the greenhouse is filling it with compost and topsoil and growing vegetable crops inside with protection from rabbits and other pests and using the perennial water supply we are blessed with. We will modify the walls with screen to get more ventilation. We can irrigate with drip irrigation using gravity fed water from the “water hill”