Utz Kab’ means “Good Earth” in Mayan. In keeping with the mayan traditional ways we are incorporating the older knowledge with newer insights to create a new vision of sustainable farming in the Toledo District of Southern Belize. The 14 acre traditional cocoa farm was purchased from a Keiichi Mayan elder, Mr Estevan Bol, who had no younger family members to care for it. A common problem in the traditional villages, the young are deserting the villages and the traditional ways of life for promise of the glamour and the easier life in the cities.

Proud of his farm and heritage, we are honored and proud to maintain his farm and carry on with his love of the earth and what it has given to him. In cooperation with the Toledo Cocoa Growers Association, The Village of San Antonio, Green and Blacks of England, The Carbon Gold Program, and others we are planning to:

Create a carbon neutral housing unit for the working residents of the farm. Presently villagers live in environmentally unfriendly environments utilizing poor waste management and energy production methods.

Create a off-grid sustainable technology platform to sustain the farm activities and where economically and ecologically feasible be a power provider to the BEL electrical grid (Eg; Micro-Hydro Dam)

Create an argonomic system that develop various plant species to sustain the rainforest and improve farm economics

Explore Biochar and other new innovative carbon reduction and containment technologies

Introduce new farming equipment and technology to improve farm operational functionality and land management

Create an agro-tourism business that centers on knowledge and first hand experience of the rainforest plants for health, healing and well being

We are pleased to announce that our farm has been chosen as a initial site to showcase the Carbon Gold “BioChar” technology in May 09.  BioChar is the production of charcoal from biomass (Biochar), utilising pyrolysis technology, can provide the cheapest and most effective solution to the urgent need for greenhouse gas reductions and soil restoration.

“Biomass at Utz Kab’ Farm ready for Biochar Process”

Biochar can be produced from readily available biomass sources, and its burial in soil represents an authentic and measurable way of guaranteeing permanent sequestration.

Biochar-based fertilisers can restore soil structure, reducing the need for fertiliser and water, while capturing atmospheric CO2 and permanently burying it in the ground. Nutrients, beneficial micro-organisms and moisture cling to the pores of the biochar to retain these essential elements of plant growth and fertility within the soil, and prevent their
run-off and evaporation.

Organic farming, based on biochar-based Carbonic Farming™, represents a sustainable and profitable way to address the major challenges to our survival.

Hats off to the founders of Carbon Gold and the innovative and planet saving biochar solution

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