Our Work

In recent decades the Cusco region has been affected by the advance of globalization and the needs of a devouring economic system. Today we are affected by indiscriminate logging and monocultures that deplete the soil and abuse chemicals. We want to take all our experience and generate more opportunities to apply the theory that we have been teaching for ten years. The pillar of our Forestry and Sustainable Development area will be: the conservation of the Andean Carob Tree -Prosopis Tupayachensis as the main species-, since it is one of the most important trees for many cultures of the American continent.

The contribution of the carob tree to the conservation of the environment, watersheds, microclimate, soil, flora and wildlife makes it a “multipurpose” tree that, unfortunately, is in danger of extinction in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Location where we develop our activities. 

The preservation of the aforementioned tree will be achieved through the expansion of its production in our greenhouses in order to promote a larger scale germination that will allow us to plant approximately 2000 carob trees in the next rainy season in the province of Calca (September 2025 – March 2026). In the long term these efforts will help us to restore rural livelihoods by improving the productivity of degraded land in the communities of the province. The communities will be a vital part of the reforestation process.

Now, for the new communities and the sustainable development: the Andean carob tree has the advantage of being an ideal resource for agroindustrial processing aimed at the production of derived foods, thus increasing the value of the fruit over its use as fuel and avoiding the felling of trees for monocultures of avocado and tara. The rural populations living in the area of the species, by being involved in the development of an agroindustrial process, would see their own economic development promoted.