Tree Tracking Receipt
We've been tracking 555 trees at Junedesse's mountain since April 2020. We pay Junedesse per each tree tracked so that he has enough income to pay a caretaker to keep an eye on the trees, weed them, and water them when necessary.
Enel's Family Land: A Model for Biodiversity
This is a large piece of land owned by distant relatives of our Nursery Manager Enel. He will take over this land for The Haiti Tree Project and plant a large variety of fruit trees that will be available for community harvesting during times of need.
This land will serve as a demonstration forest for other communities to see how impactful a forest full of food is. Some people see farming as something for the immediate future and tree growing as something too far away. But there are people like Enel too, that given the proper support, will grow trees instead of crops, and as a result, have a long term permanent, year-round supply of food. We believe that having this biodiverse forest will inspire other communities to start planting for the future.
Christmas at the Church in Les Cayes
Agronomist Remy Plants 421 Trees
Agro Remy finished fencing and planting all the avocado and breadnut trees we gave him. All of the trees are now available for tracking at TreeTracker. Soon, we’ll be able to show you a map of all of the trees from any specific farmer.
Shipment of Living Posts and Trees
Argonomist Remy received his final shipment of living posts and trees to fence in his avocado and breadnut trees.
Dirt for 5000 Trees
Today, we received a shipment of rich soil that will serve this season’s plantings. This season, we plan to plant high-value trees that are typically difficult to grow. Trees like citrus, mango, cashew, and cacao are on our list.
Dedicated to 400+ Trees
An elected official from the community of La Hatte, Kasek Gasner, is planting 400+ trees on his land for his community. He took a mixture of avocado, breadfruit, and Fwenn (indigenous forest trees).
You can see the small mounds of dirt and a small tree planted in each one. They did a nice job spreading out the trees so they can grow to have a full canopy with space between them for other tree species to be planted in the spring.
The freshly planted trees have to fight the new experience of strong sun once leaving the nursery. Kasek Gasner says he will keep them watered but he has to wait until the evening to not burn the leaves.
Avocado trees are good at handling transplant and hot sun.
Kids Get Breadfruit!
It’s breadfruit season in Haiti! One of our team agronomists, Jean Nerva, gave a class today on the importance of eating Haitian foods for your health and for the health of the country. His focus was on the benefits of breadfruit trees. He brought the students homemade breadfruit chips, sponsored by Trees That Feed. Breadfruit offers the children a healthy and delicious meal.
New Wheelbarrow
New supplies are needed all the time in our active tree growing project. The wheelbarrow is our most used equipment for carrying dirt, supplies, seedlings, and anything else that has some weight to it. We use it every day to move trees and soil around; replacing it cost us $60.
Last month we had to replace a $50 watering hose after a stray dog chewed holes in it. These tools are necessary but not in the budget, but thanks to surprise one-time donations we were able to get them replaced.
