Our workers are planting avocado seeds while also filling the bags with dry dirt. Once all 2,000 bags are filled, we'll hire one worker to care for and water them over four months.
It costs about $900 to run the nursery for four months with 2,000 trees. If we had another $300 we could grow twice as many trees and bring the costs down per tree quite significantly.
People of all ages in the local villages have been asked to collect avocado seeds. It’s a great way to give everyone some paid work. The going rate for avocado seeds is 10 cents.
Since it isn't easy to know if the seeds come from a good avocado, we ask everyone to bring the seeds with the meat still on them. This helps us see if it's from a good tree, and then we're able to accept their seeds and pay.
The local people are very happy to see some new activity at the nursery.
