Here's whats been happening on Bonne Terre!! October/November 2017 Amazing harvest of guava this year and they are still blooming! Starfruit are abundant, we have harvested peanuts and are getting ready to plant them again. Eggplant has gone amok and we planted a weeee bit too much and not enough (ready any) of our other [...]
Latest Update What a full summer. Spring and summer actually! My cousin James was with me for 2 months helping with the website, teaching me media information and helping on the farm. I loved having him here and greatly appreciate all his help and insight! Bonne Terre celebrated 5 years in August! Summer was full [...]
45 Minutes...... Thats how long it took. Took to convince some of the staff on Bonne Terre to help clean out the composting toilet. 2 1/2 years of planning. One year of using the toilet. 16 months of it sitting closed, locked and decomposing. Even took some friendly abuse from some friends visiting.... you know [...]
WE'VE GOT CHICKENS!!! Its always fun to have something new happening in the development of Bonne Terre Haiti! A bit over a month ago we got a delivery of laying chickens that we had been waiting 2 months for. These beauties started laying eggs within a week of arrival and (since then) we have been able [...]
I love lists. I love making lists. I love checking things off lists when done. I may even be known to write something on a list that was already done just to cross it off. ;) EXCEPT when that list gets a bit too long. Like 6 pages. I think thats my limit at this point. [...]
Farming can be a difficult job everywhere in the world, and wherever you go farmers will have different struggles. In Haiti we battle heat, drought, archaic practices and personally SWF (Single White Female) syndrome in a male dominated culture. I can't tell you how many times I have had tools taken out of my hands [...]
Over the past couple of weeks, we've made a ton of changes to the Bonne Terre Haiti website so that it's up to date and easy to navigate! Check it out here at bonneterrehaiti.org We've just launched our new Zazzle page where you can get some funky fresh Bonne Terre merchandise, with all proceeds going to the [...]
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