2024 Western SARE
Dr. Starrlight Augustine, head of Synergia Ranch Agroecology, wins a Western SARE grant to research and implement the use of native grasses for land restoration and erosion control.
2023 United States Forestry Department (USDA)
Puerto Rico Hardwoods wins a Wood Innovation Grant from the United States Forestry Department (USDA) which enables it to acquire the island’s largest sawmill and drying kilns.
2022 Synergia Ranch Agroecology
Synergia Ranch Agroecology receives a 3-year grant from the Environmental Quality Incentives, Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA) and a New Mexico Healthy Soil Program grant which funds 4 hoophouses, pollinator
2021 Yale International Society of Foresters
Las Casas de la Selva wins the Yale International Society of Foresters Innovation Award for its work on sustainable tropical forestry in the rainforest. See more: https://eyeontherainforest.org/2021-innovation-award-yale-istf/
2014 Puerto Rico Hardwood
Puerto Rico Hardwood started as an enterprise to reclaim hurricane-damaged wood and to restart a wood industry on the island.
2017 Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico Hardwoods works with FEMA and the Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources to process dozens of truckloads of hurricane-felled timber, saving them
2018 Good Earth Award
Synergia Ranch is awarded the Good Earth award at the New Mexico Organic Farming Conference for its land stewardship and organic production of fruits and vegetables.