Today we are feeding over 100 women at a nutritional formation workshop for women. For breakfast we are serving peanut butter on bread. We asked the ladies that were buying the food to buy peanut butter. Instead, they bought fresh peanuts. This picture is Mdm. Fritznel roasting the peanuts. There is a local organization that has a hand crank peanut butter grinder. They processed the peanuts into peanut butter.
Zoom in on the wheel of this one. The wheel is made from an institutional sized can that tomato sauce came in from the school lunch program. I like it!
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This is the new building under construction at the Fr. Jim Bretl Agriculture Center. When completed it will have three rooms. The room closest to the gate is for a future guardian. The middle room is an office with a sleeping loft. And the small room on the end is an outdoor kitchen. The really good news is that it is on schedule and on budget!!! Many, many thanks to the Salvatorians for making this dream come true, and empowering us to pursue it. Again, m\’eci.
Life in Haiti February 28th, 2016 We havent been writing as much because we have been very busy. Our funding will end shortly after we return to the US; we will have to find jobs to support ourselves until we can find the funding we need to continue our work here. There is so much to do yet, we feel like we are really starting to make real progress. Our language skills are improving, we have established a solid core of people we can work with, and understand Haitian culture so much more. All of these things have taken time.
We just completed three successful, but intensive days of agriculture formation. This is the third formation workshop we have hosted. The three day workshop began on Tuesday when we met with over thirty volunteer community leaders. Our purpose was to decide what information to include in the four sessions that composed the actual formation workshop. The four sessions were: Two subjects, Vanilla and insect control in sweet potatoes and piti mi. Also included two subjects, Double dug bio-intensive gardens and worm composting. Environment and sanitation PH testing and building healthy soil After the subjects were determined, primary leaders were selected
