FARMING BETTER

Concurrent with reclaiming the land, we work with farmers to improve their farming practices in order to produce better and more sustainable yields. This is difficult on land that is far from suitable for agriculture, but it is land they have. No point dreaming about Iowa.

THE KEY LESSONS FARMERS LEARN

  1. Adopt practices that protect and restore the soil and water assets of the land

  2. Grow trees with sustainable forestry

  3. Grow food and trees together (Agroforestry)

  4. Grow a diversity trees and plants and co-mingle them ecologically

  5. Increase food security with crops that can stand drought and be stored after harvest, like tropical yam.

  6. Make a farm business plan - what, where, when to plant, money in, money out

  7. Work cooperatively with others in the community

 

Agroforestry has traditional Haitian roots and ecological logic