1. Have a dedicated team around you.

 

2. Make it sustainable: Prepare the ground properly and use agroforestry know-how.

 

 

3. Don’t kill yourself with the machete, hospitals around here are for dying, not for living…

 

4. Make sure your planting area is well protected from cows – you don’t want your efforts being eaten or trampled.

 

5. Bring a juicy melon to the field to keep spirits high.

 

 

6. Have some good conversations during work and time will pass twice as fast.

 

7. After a few days of work, you’ll be in desperate need of blistering plasters.

 

8. Bring a rainjacket for unexpected tropical rainstorms.

 

9. Dont’ look at the ground all the time, you will miss some beautiful rainbows.

 

10. If you don’t get back dirty, you didn’t work hard enough.