AgroForestry, Amazing Native fruits
We plant several native fruit trees (jussara, araças, jaboticabas, grumixamas, cabeludinhas) and other tropical fruit trees (banana, cocoa, cupuaçu, coffee) in the forest. In this way, we are able to generate income without cutting down the forest and without any loss of habitat to biodiversity.
Native Beekeeping
Native stingless bees (bees from the meliponini tribe) are great!! They are among the main pollinators of the Atlantic Forest and they really need our help! They are at risk of extinction due to habitat loss and use of pesticides in agriculture.
Meliponiculture (native beekeeping) is the best way to help preserve native bees, which will bring more health and preservation to forests and their fauna (without pollination there are no fruits to feed the animals). Through meliponiculture we also generate income for the maintenance of our work of conservation and environmental preservation at FSM. Its products generate health for people (honey, propolis) and replace (wax) products from the highly polluting oil industry.
Mushrooms
In addition to being super healthy, rich in protein and B vitamins, they increase immunity and are great substitutes for animal protein, helping us fight climate change. The way we produce it takes CO2 out of the air and fixes it in the ground, either through eucalyptus logs or high-growing grasses.
Our mushrooms benefit from the humid and cool climate of the forest we preserve, saving climatization costs. At the end of the process, the remaining substrate and logs will fertilize the agroforestry.