Happy Saturday. If you're looking for an inspiring and happy story for the weekend, I've got a great pick for you here with some amazing photography from Inaê Guion. New farmers in Brazil are embaracing beekeeping and agroforesty on previously unporductive land. Check it out!
Mongabay Environmental NewsPhotos: Newcomer farmers in Brazil embrace bees, agroforestry and find successPARAÍBA VALLEY, Brazil — Under the frigid morning air of the Mantiqueira Mountains in southeastern Brazil, honeybees begin leaving the hive. “When day brakes they are calmer,” says Mara Galvão, a smallholder farmer and beekeeper who is part of the rural agrarian reform settlement Nova Esperança in the Paraíba Valley. Nestled between mountains connecting the […]