Big Change Calls for Creativity

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Big change calls for creativity – and at Legado, we like to be creative. Change in our minds can start in an endless variety of ways, and it just might even begin with a puppet show. A group of primary school students from Mucunha worked with Legado: Namuli’s team to put together a puppet show about the use of fire, ... Read More

Let’s Get Growing

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Over 60 producers from Mount Namuli’s Producer Associations are working together in the community demonstration fields to produce lettuce, collards, cabbage and kale. The community demonstration fields provide farmers with a central place to test new conservation agriculture techniques. While working alongside Legado: Namuli’s field team and other producers, farmers have the opportunity to ask questions and see the results ... Read More

A Day in the Life of a Bee on Namuli

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It’s 5 am on Mount Namuli and the first rays of sunshine have just begun to peek through the shade of the trees. It may be early for some creatures, but for me and the rest of the bees of Namuli, it’s time for us to get to work.  The light of the morning glistens on the cold dew of ... Read More

Happy Bees Come From a Healthy Forest

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Legado: Namuli’s field team has been working hard with Nitidae’s new technical beekeeping technician, Juliano Rodrigues, and local honey partner Agri-Mel to introduce sustainable beekeeping and honey production practices into communities. Weekly trainings have prepared the team for eco-friendly beekeeping in the mountain forests of Namuli. From preparation and installation of catch boxes to monitoring and management of colonies, each ... Read More

Welcome to The Agrarian House

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“Day by day, our actions have an impact on the environment. If we cut and burn the forests today, and don't plant trees for tomorrow, the forests and water that the trees protect will be gone. What we do in our fields and forests today will have consequences for tomorrow. Each day we have the opportunity to create our future ... Read More

Celebrating Mountain Tenacity

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It’s International Mountain Day! At Legado, our team is celebrating the grandeur and biological importance of the world’s mountains, and the tenacity and innovation of mountain people everywhere.  Mountain people like Avelina Sabonete, who grew up in Mount Namuli’s Mucunha Community and is now entering a new role as a community leader as a member of the Mucunha Natural Resource ... Read More

Leadership + Legacy on Mount Namuli

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Last week, I returned from a trip to Mozambique. It was the first time since I had the twins that I had travelled that long and that far away from them.  I left my home and journeyed 8,000 miles to meet with new and old friends on Mount Namuli because we had a future to craft together.  It was a ... Read More

How Legado Does Leadership

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At Legado, we believe that the source of all progressive, systemic, and lasting change, are people who are making a personal choice to take conscious actions towards the future they wish to be a part of, as individuals and as a collective.  This conscious future is what we refer to as legacy, or if you’re speaking Portuguese, legado. In an ... Read More

Legado’s Majka Burhardt Named as Mulago Henry Arnhold Fellow

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In June of 2018, Legado’s Executive Director, Majka Burhardt, was named as one of Mulago’s Henry Arnhold Fellows– a group of “standout leaders focused on scalable solutions in conservation.” Mulago is providing Legado critical funds and tools to scale our work from Mount Namuli to four other mountains by 2021. We’re grateful for their support of our work protecting mountain … Read More

Do you want to go to Mount Namuli?

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A lot of people have been asking me recently if they can come visit Mount Namuli and meet the people who call this special place home. In response, we've teamed up with Google Jump and filmmaker Ross Henry to create a 3-minute Virtual Reality film, Mountains = Water = Life, to take you right to the heart of the mountain. Mountains = ... Read More