Help us fill these bags! While we have enough steady income from donors now to support a few workers, we still don’t have enough to purchase valuable seeds for all these bags. Many are filled with sed trees and Rosnie has put cashew in some as well, but we need more donations to buy mango seeds and many other more expensive seasonal fruits. If we don’t get more support soon, we will have to only produce a few hardwood trees for the fall. Spread the word about the work we are doing!
Replanting Sed Trees
It’s been raining so much that no one can bring us a truck of soil to continue planting all these sed trees. We’ll plant what we can with the remaining soil, but until we receive more soil, the large bed of Sed trees can't be transplanted. Gentle hands will have to pull them all apart if they get too big.
Sed Trees Ready To Be Bagged For Distribution
How many trees are below?
Each indigenous "Sed" tree (Cedrela odorata) will need to be planted and cared for through the hot summer months to make it through the fall rainy season. Our team will have to regularly water the seedlings and mulch the soil to keep these seedlings alive.
Planting sed trees on mountainsides brings an extra challenge for workers who carry the water up to high altitudes. But the high altitudes are where trees are needed the most to stop erosion and mudslides while also filtering water to the water table and springs.
Adding 800 new seedlings to a mountainside costs $360 to water through the summer and allows farmers to maintain a 90% seedling survival rate. Without water, more than 80% will die.
Thanks to our monthly supporters, we'll most likely be able to water a third of these trees in the coming months. Caring for the other two-thirds will have to come from new monthly donors. So currently, we need an additional $240 in monthly donations to guarantee the survival of these trees. This could come from 12 donors giving $20 each or 24 donors giving $10 each.
Every additional dollar we that comes in monthly increases our survival rate. So on this Earth Day, please consider donating monthly to invest in the hard work Haitian farmers and landowners have started.
Sed and Mahagony Trees Sprouting
The seeds were collected from trees just a couple of weeks ago. A truckload of soil was spread across the ground to sprout them along with any other seeds we collected. This week we'll transfer t the sprouts into bags, and hopefully, they'll be ready by May.
