// Project Bona Fide is a non-profit organization working toward sustaining culture through organic agriculture, community correlated outreach, and re-forestation projects in Nicaragua. Project Bona Fide has been created out of a need to support rural Nicaraguan farming communities so that they may gain self-empowerment and economic stability. In addition to offering farmers financial and technical support toward gaining international organic certification, Project Bona Fide focuses on establishing much needed fair trade export market* opportunities, preserving natural environments, and focusing on local health and nutrition projects.

Project Bona Fide and its pilot farm, Finca Bona Fide are dedicated to creating organic cooperatives and establishing fair trade markets that directly benefit the farming community.

Finca Bona Fide is a 43-acre educational farm in rural southwest Nicaragua being developed as a small farm research/training center for regenerative agriculture and land management.

Technology transfer and farm projects include:

  • Creating new sources of income, food and employment
  • Improving the profitability and reliability of present farming operations
  • Establishment of tree nurseries and higher value crops
  • Improving both economic security and nutritional balance by including a greater diversity of perennial crops
  • Appropriate technological processing of value added products
  • Reversal of ecological problems caused by erosion, chemicals, and deforestation
  • Involvement in rectifying immediate health needs of local communities
  • Genetic conservation of multi-use species of tropical fruits, nuts, bamboo, palms, cycads, heirloom vegetables, and perennial medicinal crops
  • Appropriate technology revolving around human powered water pumping, solar hot water systems, and ferro-cement water storage technologies.
  • Providing space and materials for "continuing education" and workshops focused on building individual skill sets for local folk