We have had a report from Faith Home in Honduras that the house parents and children are growing two crops per year in the shade house. Below are a couple of pictures of cucumber vines in the shade house and a pile of cucumbers that were harvested. They also had a good corn crop to enjoy some traditional dishes and a quantity to dry for use in making tortillas. We are planning on sending down a walk behind tiller to help with the garden cultivation.
At Bombardopolis Haiti the Steve Leach has had a pretty good year with gardening. He raised a couple of dozen heads of cabbage in pots and we will be sending some drip pans or saucers to use with the pot planting. This will help conserve water. We also have a quantity of seed that will be darried in this fall. Material for two small shade houses have been loaded onto a shipping container for Haiti. The January team will construct the two units for two gardeners at Ti Paradis.
Locally the community garden project has gone pretty well. Tomatoes, watermelons, squash, peppers, and herbs have been produced. Cool weather crops have been planted in the beds in the greenhouse and soon it will be time to enclose the ends in plastic and prepare for winter.
