The secret to a town’s perfect potatoes? Its well-preserved forest.

Toribio Cabrera, a potato farmer in Concepción Chiquirichapa, Guatemala. Like most of his coleagues, Cabrera attributes the success of the local potato harvest to the use of leaf litter from the forest as a fertilizer. Image by Jorge Rodríguez for Mongabay.

Links to other stories in this three-part profile of the Concepción Chiquirichapa community’s stewardship of its sacred cloud forest will appear here once they are published: How a Mayan town restored its sacred cloud forest and water supply Ancient spirituality guides a Maya town’s conservation efforts CONCEPCIÓN CHIRIQUICHAPA, Guatemala — Each morning, the commercial terminal … Continue reading The secret to a town’s perfect potatoes? Its well-preserved forest.