400 Breadfruit Roots

Immediately after the konparet breadfruit seminar, Enel got back to work to increase our breadfruit output. He's growing as many breadfruit seedlings from roots as possible thanks to the knowledge he acquired in the Jeremie breadfruit factory.

We bought 400 hundred roots today that will go in a rich silty soil bed covered in mulch and that will be watered twice a day for a month.

One Mamit of Breadfruit Flour

Now that we are making breadfruit flour we need to start packaging it by the pound. Today, Enel will take this “mamit” of flour to a scale in town and see how much it weighs so we can start packaging it by the pound.

A New Phone

Our main phone for communication broke this week. Luckily, we had some extra funds on reserve and invested in a new phone. This new phone will allow our nursery manager, Enel, to take more rich photos and videos to share with our newsletter subscribers and social media followers, along with supporting improved tree tracking.

Enel's Unfortunate Injury

A few weeks ago, Enel, our nursery manager and team leader in Haiti, badly scraped his leg while getting off the motorcycle. Unfortunately, he kept working, even though he has been in a lot of pain and not sleeping well. He's visited many doctors in the area over the last weeks who gave him creams and antibiotics, but the wound still hadn't healed. So today, Enel decided to travel an hour on the motorcycle to see a wound specialist. For the first time, a doctor bandaged him, and the pain immediately subsided. On Friday morning, Enel will go back for more treatment.

The health of our team always comes before project needs. Wounds that are ignored can become fatal; in fact, many people die yearly due to infections that are left untreated.

Thank you to all of our donors. Through their support, Enel was able to get proper treatment.

Enel's Favorite Day

One of Enel's favorite workdays is filling seedling bags. On these days, Enel gets to hire people from all over the village to work, talk, laugh, and play music. And each day, he offers everyone a big meal as a thank you for their work. Enel also keeps a list of names and rotates the work schedule to keep it fair and fun for everyone in the community.

Learning To Grow Breadfruit

It’s not easy to grow breadfruit trees. They die easily in the early days, but Rosnie and Enel have been watering them two times a day for six weeks. Thanks to their hard work, we only lost four of the 30 plants that sprouted from roots.

Both Rosnie and Enel are proud because breadfruit trees are becoming very popular. So popular, that even people going to Port-au-Prince want to take them but it'll be another month before we send the trees to homes.