A Snapshot of Our Ecosystem at Work: The Silk Grass Farms 2025 Impact Report
Building a large-scale, purpose-driven, regenerative agriculture business requires a constellation of stakeholders ranging from employees and customers to partners, researchers, and government agencies. It requires everyone in that constellation to work together toward monumental outcomes: systems change, research and education, experimentation, collaboration, and trust-building. For our team at Silk Grass Farms, our success is meaningful only if it includes all aspects of our triple-bottom line: people, the planet, and prosperity.
We are pleased to share a summary of this work over the last year in our 2025 Impact Report! While the report offers a compelling snapshot, it’s far from the whole story. To truly measure and report our impact, we would have to consider every element of our ecosystem that contributes to and relies on our success — every micro-organism in the tens of thousands of acres we manage and protect, every child whose education begins at Sandy Creek Elementary, every partner whose research is enhanced by access to this land, every coconut shell that, instead of rotting in a field, is transformed into a natural soil amendment to help a new stand of coconut trees grow.
The throughline of our work in 2025 was the continued development of the ecosystem that is critical to achieving our systems-changing work now and into the future. We focused on engaging our stakeholders and expanding science‑based monitoring of our farms and forests, strengthening sales and sourcing partnerships, building operational resilience, and continuing our investment in natural lands protection.
As our growing team looks toward the future, we are honored to have the trust, partnership, and collaboration of so many people who contribute to our shared prosperity.
We publish annual Impact Reports to hold ourselves accountable and to keep our stakeholders updated on our progress and commitments.
Building Up the Business Model
The Silk Grass Farms circular business model is designed to reinvest the profits from our farm and agricultural operations to support the health and well-being of our land and community, directly helping to fund the Silk Grass Nature Reserve’s operations. (In April 2026, we changed the name of the Silk Grass Wildlife Preserve to the Silk Grass Nature Reserve.)
In 2025, we developed the business side of our enterprise by strengthening sales and sourcing partnerships and deepening operational resilience. The results were a 16% increase in year-over-year gross revenues, a 16% increase in local sales, and a 4% increase in export sales. We also streamlined our financial and administrative capabilities by completing the integration of all four of our farm locations.
Additional key activities included:
Deepening our relationship with French chocolate-maker Valrhona, which purchases our entire cacao harvest every year. The Valrhona team visited Silk Grass Farms for technical exchanges and joint workshops.
Strengthening our local business partnerships by hosting a giveaway celebrating local Belizean businesses that share our values of sustainability, quality, and building a thriving local economy. These businesses include Naledo, iKOOMA, Locx-On, BodyBelize, Reyes Organic Beauty, Hello Body, and Che'il Mayan Chocolate.
Achieving 122.3 points on our B Corp Certification, an increase of 34% over our previous score. The median score for businesses that complete the assessment is currently 50.9.
Protecting the Planet, Propelling People
In 2025, we focused on expanding science‑based monitoring of our farms and forests, continuing our investment in natural land protection, and delivering high-quality jobs and educational opportunities to our employees and their families.
As we work with partners to protect land across Belize, we also want to deepen our understanding of the scientific and cultural value of these lands. We hosted an array of wildlife and cultural researchers. Stroud Water Research Center visited Silk Grass Farms to assess water quality and provide recommendations to ensure the health and diversity of our macroinvertebrate, microbial, and fish communities. The National Audubon Society began the work to establish a research and monitoring framework across the Silk Grass Nature Reserve and adjacent lands to inform habitat management and corridor planning across Central America. Our partner Panthera’s camera stations in the Silk Grass Nature Reserve recorded 24 species of mammals and four species of game birds, including jaguars, ocelots, pumas, Baird’s tapirs, collared peccaries, and white-tailed deer. And archaeological geophysicist Dr. Bryan Lahey conducted a drone survey that indicated the need for a larger archaeological team to explore possible Mayan settlements within our boundaries.
Additional key activities included:
Increasing local employment by 13%. Silk Grass Farms now employs 423 individuals across four locations. In 2025, we supported six employees enrolled in higher education or specialized training, introduced an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to provide support for personal and work-related challenges, and engaged local medical partners to provide employees with annual physicals and routine dental cleanings.
Doubling enrollment at Sandy Creek Academy, our on-site school for the children of employees. We provided financial assistance to 142 children to cover school tuition, books, and uniforms.
Ramping up our natural lands protection. We obtained a 30-year license to protect the 95,000-acre Sittee Forest Reserve alongside the government of Belize, protected 24,500 acres of the Silk Grass Wildlife Preserve as a Belize NGO, and contributed to carbon reduction and sequestration by registering carbon units, generating solar power, and producing biochar.
Looking ahead through the end of 2026, we will take these projects forward with a focus on continuous monitoring and scaling of regenerative practices across our agricultural footprint. We are thrilled to have already welcomed two new executive leaders: Silk Grass Farms Executive Director Alex Gallagher, who brings decades of experience in global food and agriculture, and Silk Grass Nature Reserve Executive Director Dr. Johnathan Canton, who has a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Florida and, prior to joining Silk Grass Farms, spent five years as a faculty member at the University of Calgary.
We are honored to continue to steward this land, and to learn and grow alongside the employees we serve and communities we work with as we develop a new vision of true prosperity.