Repair/restore food producing gardens in Haiti

Repairing and restoring food gardens in Haiti is an ongoing activity.  The focus of this work has become more unpredictable over the last few years.  Rain fall was an aspect of planters living,anticipated as we prepare the new harvest.  Raining season is welcomed as it was usually.  It is the type of rain, the intensity and the result of its timng that is now a major concern.  

"We live in extremes" said Constant.  Today we are inundated and the next few weeks, instead of a recovery, we dive into a drought losing what we started recovering.  Just in the last week, Haiti reported inundation death and missing people from the rainfall.  

When we started the project to restore gardens, it was after the great Hurricane Mathew but subsequenty we worked together with over 2,300 members of community farm organizations to replant their food gardens.  The center for plaintain propagation alone recovered its beans and plaintain crops as you will see below in the posted pictures.  

We recovered the following gardens with your help and support.  We face more intemperate weather and still inundation, drought and wind continue to challenge our state of recovery and impact our partners capacity to harvest and improve food production.  

During this period of time we have restored gardens using multiple strategies:

Oxplowing servies:  89 farmers benefitted from the provision of oxen and plows made possible from your gift to the Lambi Fund.  There organizations included OPAH, MPL, SADN and TKL Oscar Romeo who received 12 Oxens and plows to re-establish the tilling services and assisted in the tilling of 50,325 kawo of land.   

Another strategy to restore gardens is integrated in our reforestation program.  Each project plants 20,000 trees fruits or forest.During this time they planted 36,604 plants of which 30,394 are fruit plants an integral part of the nutrition production.  They include:  Cherries , grapefruit, oranges, coffee, cacao, avocado, chestnut, mango, cashew totaling 30,394 fruit trees.

Your donation enabled us to achieve this important milestone.  Your future donation will continue to help us produce more food for the consumers in rural Haiti who ar eunable to afford imported goods.

Thank you for your support, your help.  Your generosity is appreciated and invaluable to our successful partnership with rural farmers.  Thanks again.

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Since the disaster of Hurricane Mathew, one can assert that the restoration of gardens continues since the depth of destruction of soil level, the lost of land encroacment in coastal regions and the salt water deposits were difficult to restore.  Although we have seen great progress, the greening of the area is evident and there is work to be done.

The lambi Fund truly conscious of the revival of the south has invested in 21 additional project of rehabilitation in that department.  In addition, there were among them,  the gardens for food production:

•   OBDERGM produced 16,020 new plants (grapefruit, papaya, lemon and moringa)
•   KOKAP renewed 60,000 coffee trees to improve production of coffee for local    consumer
•   OPGDSC grafted 28,010 Mango trees added to their current gardens
•   COPADET planted 11,321 new fruit and forest trees toward their 20,000 goal
•   SADN production of fruit trees 26,000 diverse fruit trees in its nursery
•   APTK and KPM are now actively producing 60,000 trees to establish greater density in reforestation goals in their respective regions in the south.

The gardens are evolving as our partners continue to produce, beans, rice, corn, millet that are milled in their neighborhood mills to produce cereal for daily food intake in these communities.Not only are we involved in restoring but also expanding food gardens and replacing old colonial coffee and cacao fields to improve each harvest.

Thank you for your support and your help in making these productions a reality.

Links:

• website