Sustainable Harvest International

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Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) provides farming families in Central America with the training and tools to overcome poverty while restoring our planet's tropical forests. 

Slash-and-Burn

Family Diet

Alley-Cropping

Organic gardens improve a family’s diet and income.

Chicken coops keep chickens and eggs safe from predators.

Biogas digesters turn organic material to methane gas

Methane gas from the biogas digester is used for cooking instead of firewood

Biodiversity

Multi-story Crops

Marketing

Wood-conserving Stoves

Healthy Soils and Agro-Ecosystems

We have to work together as a community and as a family to support ourselves. We work very hard and want a better future for our children. With much affection for all our North American brothers and sisters, we love you very much and are grateful for your support of SHI so they can teach us. I am an organic agriculture practitioner always struggling to protect nature. Thank you for your support.

Your friend, Jose Elias Perez

Value Added Products

School Groups

Passing on the knowledge…

SHI’s Accomplishments to Date:

Technical assistance provided to more than 1,360 families in 101 communities

32 community loan funds for sustainable agriculture with 175 families

More than 2 million trees plantedThousands of acres of degraded land converted

to sustainable usesTens of thousands of acres of tropical forest

saved from slash and burn farming

You can help us reach the thousands of families that are still

waiting for SHI’s help.

$15,000 supports the work of one extensionist for an entire year.

$3,000 sponsors an entire village program

for a whole year.

$300 provides a family with technical support and materials for one year.

$100 starts a school program.

$50 buys the materials for a wood-conserving stove.

$25 plants 100 trees

Smaller World Service Trips

Sustainable Harvest International

Planting Hope

Restoring Forests

Nourishing Communities