Our Nursery Manager, Enel, searched the streets of Les Cayes until he found a brand new mill for the nursery. It's up and running at home in LaSikri.
We primarily plan to use the mill to produce breadfruit flour, increasing the demand for breadfruit trees in the region. We'll also be able to grind cacao and increase interest in planting cacao trees, which we know has a lot of value once fully grown. Through increasing our production, we'll be expanding on one of THTP missions, which allows communities to produce a variety of crops from their trees.
We also realize that the mill can be used as a source of additional income. We were asked to grind large amounts of peanuts and corn in the first few days. We're charging 50 cents per large can, and that income is being recorded for the community to see and then grow more trees.
