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In your own words: My name is Gertrudis Salazar. I am 57 years old. I live with my
integrated family of my son and three grandkids. I have lived in the Las Breñas
community for 8 years, and 5 years to be working with FUNCOS.
The most important thing about work with Harvest has been the teaching that they
have offered me in bettering my soil. Since I first began to work, I did not know
anything about preparing fertilizers and organic biofertilizers, but with the training
that I received, today I have prepared a lot. I am putting it into practice in my different
crops and I am obtaining very good results. With the different types of organic
fertilizers I feel happy because I do not have to go the commercial houses in the city
to spend my money, and at the same time I am giving good use taking care of my soil.
Sustainable Harvest has been a huge help for my family and I because they have
facilitated us with many infrastructures; una troja (store of dried grains), un silo
(storage for dried grains), and barbed wire for the fence of my vegetable garden and
henhouse. Also I have received forest and fruit plants without paying for anything.
The only commitment I have is to sow them and take care of them.
I am very happy, as a woman that I am, to be assisted by the people of Harvest, and I
hope that they continue supporting us to make a change in our community and to be
able to show that it is possible to cultivate crops in a more economic and healthy way.
Words from the expert Cipriano Picado: Ms. Gertrudris has a vegetable garden
of 100 square meters where she presently cultivates tomato, cabbage, chiltoma, carrot,
and she has a plot of timber and fruit trees. Also she has crops with sustainable
techniques for basic grains such as corn, beans and rice.
She is very satisfied with our assistance, and before she is adjusted she wants to have
a larger garden supported with mesh to avoid the damage caused by the animals since
her hens harm her garden.
As well, Ms. Gertrudris has been a widow for 5 years and as a woman has been a
good model. Since her husband died, she has become integrated into working in the
field completely without having different materials, and she has been able to
guarantee food for her family.