# Who runs the best field schools? In alphabetical order... #### Agropueblos in Sibundoy, Colombia Our team originally learned [bokashi](/practice-guide/bokashi/what-is-bokashi.md), [biochar](/practice-guide/biochar/connecting-a-third-party-app.md), and basic seedling cultivation skills from the Indigenous elders network in Sibundoy, Colombia. They host and teach ecotourists at agricultural schools and specialize in maintaining the thousands of years tradition that we studied to inform the [*chagras* economics](/more-trees/chagras.md) and inform the agrobiodiversity protocol. #### Amisacho Lab in Ecuador Our team originally learned [bokashi](/practice-guide/bokashi/what-is-bokashi.md), [biochar](/practice-guide/biochar/connecting-a-third-party-app.md), and basic seedling cultivation skills from the soil scientist Lexie Amasacho in Lago Agrio, Ecuador. We recommend her lab as a good place to visit, study, and learn. She also works with a nearby Indigenous community. #### [Embrapa Amazônia Oriental](https://embrapa.br/en/amazonia-oriental) Located in Belem, Brazil they have long body of work on Inga as a soil-recovery and subsistence-agriculture component. [**Eniel David Cruz**](https://www.embrapa.br/equipe/-/empregado/218013/eniel-david-cruz) published Comunicado Técnico documents on Inga edulis germination (Cruz E.D., 2021). **Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental** (Manaus) is the parallel institution and may have additional Inga researchers; **INPA** (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus) published the *Fenologia e produtividade do Ingá-Cipó* paper that gives flowering and fruiting calendars for Inga edulis in central Amazonia — directly useful for year-by-year operational calendars. #### [Inga Foundation](https://www.ingafoundation.org/) in Honduras We were unable to study with the Inga Foundation, but we have heard they are a good training site, and they produced most of the rigorous scientific work on Inga alley cropping. #### Jose Abel in Lago Agrio, Ecuador Jose is a grassroots agronomy expert who works with over 300 smallfarmers in Ecuador's Sucumbios region and is a traveling Inga trainer. He has been funded by [Rainforest Saver](https://rainforestsaver.org/) for many years and trained, and contributed significantly to cross-checking our field guide. He speaks Spanish and can set up popup training schools for visiting groups or travel across Ecuador and Colombia. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://sexytrees.savimbo.com/practice-guide/community/field-schools.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.