The Farm

The Oro Verde ® programme works from a farm situated in the municipality of Tadó. Various productive projects are administrated from here, including mining, forestry and livestock.

The Farm

As a complimentary project to the certified green gold, the programme has been supporting Analogue Forestry projects that involve the local communities in the administration of their lands, from the restoration of ecosystems to the creation of food security and independence.

Once a mine, and now a lake, we watched the fish jumping to the surface.

Seeds and cultivated seedlings are grown on the farm. The plants are then used for the rehabilitation of degraded areas and for agricultural purposes.

Bees

Our taxi waits to take us back to Tadó.

Flight to Quibdó

I joined Guillaume and Sebastion, a photographer and journalist from Paris, and David, a translater from Medellin, on a flight (with propellers) to Quibdó , the capital of the department of Chocó. From here it was a one and a half hour bus journey to the town of Tadó, my base for a few days. The Oro Verde ® programme operates in the two municipalities of Tadó and Condoto, working with 194 certified family units (around 1300 miners).


Detail of the trompe l'oeil painting by Francis Martin of Oro Verde ® miner, Catalina Mosquera. The original photograph was taken by Ronald de Hommel.