Haiti foods

OOPS !! Forgot an important picture.
Yep, he really ate those fish.

Shade/green houses

We are partnering with Arrow Outreach to build a green/shade house at Juarez, Mexico in February 2010. The dates will be Feb. 6 - Feb. 13. If this works out I believe we will see more projects with Arrow Outreach in the future. This will be a hoop type structure measuring 18 X 40 feet.

Cody Meadows of Clay City, Kentucky wants to begin a gardening project near the villages of La Digue Matheux and Barbancourt. Geographically it is about 30 miles north of PAP. He would like to build a small shade house at Clay City for demonstration and to get a feel for using a shade house and building beds. Pray for Cody and those who will be working with him in this new work. We look forward to sharing our research and experineces with him.

Haitian foods

Here are a few vegetables and foods that may
be unfamiliar to many folks in the US.


Yam


Manioc root



Manioc cakes


Legim, breadfruit, boiled bananas


Boi (haitian dumpling) and bean sauce



Street food, pates, fish, and pikliz



Korosol and sweet potatoes (red and white)

Maysolko

Mirliton or Chayote

flat bean, Haitian bean, and congo pea.

Update on Food Production

I had another email from Leo in Mexico and as usual, some great news. A couple of weeks ago they canned 57 quarts of salsa from the tomatoes and vegetables grown at Madera. They also butchered a hog and made chicharrones (pig skins) and posole which included pork, radishes, cilantro, cabbage, corn, and onions. Of course red chiles and lime rounded out the dish. They also have some of the older children and adults taking a course on hydroponics and green house management to better utilize the green house. Monday Sept. 28, 1,500 strawberry plants will be shipped to Leo in El Paso complete with Dept. of Agriculture certification for transporting them to the farm at Madera for fall planting.

At Faith Home in Honduras, they harvested some corn to make a special dish to celebrate Independence Day. Tania Willis wrote in her blog that they made "tamalitos" a sweet corn bread mixture cooked in the fresh corn husks and eaten with sweet cream. There is still plenty of corn left in the garden. Before next spring they will have a new roto tiller for their tractor that will greatly expand their ability to garden. Here is a picture of the corn from Tania's blog.

Mr. Leonard is preparing to plant 60 plantain banana plants at Ti Paradi, Haiti. Of course they will be planted in October when the moon is in the correct phase. Don't laugh this guy knows how to grow food. Here is a picture of bananas growing out of a pothole at Ti Paradi. Literally bananas growing in the desert.

I want to share this letter with all of you from Leo Paez, a Christian brother, in Mexico. Leo supports 3 child rescue centers, Teen rescue, and rescue centers for the elderly. Madera is a beautiful city located in the Sierra Madre. It is also home to one of the child rescue centers.

Joe;

Praise God for all He does!

There is lots of news and lots of good stories to tell you, but for now, I will give you a quick update.

I bought a farm close to Madera, there is 78 acres of farm land and 155 of forest land. I sold a house in El Paso TX, and was able to do the land thing. I bought 22 cows and now there is 24 and growing, planted 65 acres of oats, 5 acres of wheat, and one acre of squash.

I also rented a plot where we planted 25 acres of corn, and 2.5 acres of wheat. The 500 apple trees are doing just fine, eventhow the rows are not even and somehow not well organized, I still believe they are beutifull. The farm is my own personal asset, but all I produce will go to feed the orphans. The farm also has 50+ fully mature apple trees, and we will be canning and storing the fruit crop. The pigs are now 32, with 4 lady pigs pregnant, and a new king of the castle high quality, pure blood male I just got. We will be milling the corn and oats (hole plants) into an animal feed for the cows as well as pigs and sheep. The sheep have multiply to 28; two males and the rest females and pregnant. We belive that we will hit up to 60 this year for some will have two kids. Hopefully next year, we will hit up to 100 sheep. The pig population will explote, and we will have an overabundance of lard and meat for our places. I will be killing 2 cows for meat at the end of the year for they are old and will have their new calfs soon. Chickens are not doing so well for some coyotes killed 40, but we still have 50 or so. Rabits are not multiplying for I have them in one single cage. Perhaps you could help me build a professional dweling to raise rabits, for we are failling at it. Anyways, lots happening, lots to come, will keep you informed. Keep an eye for farm equipment, for will need lots!

Here are a couple of sketches of the shade house.
My goal is to put together a folder of pictures,
sketches, and instructions for folks to use to build
the shade houses easier.

Shade house construction

Here are a few pictures of our work day last Saturday taken by Mark Scott .