Garden and construction update by Cory

Rainy weather from hurricane Maria prevented the last half day of work on the house walls but it will be easily finished when preparations are made for the concrete floor pour. The wet weather this time of year is good for helping the concrete cure well.

The gardens are doing well but the area corn crop is starting to dry which tempts cattle owners to allow more free range grazing. To protect the new fruit trees and gardens, better fencing or more strands of barbed wire will need to be installed soon around the 5 acres of Together We Can land that is currently fenced with 3 or 4 wires.

After 10 years of fighting goats and cattle at Fauche, I am looking forward to having at least part of the Wesleyan property enclosed with cattle fencing before planting anything at the start of the next rainy season in March or April.

A Roma tomato plant here is growing well and producing dozens of fruit now at the worst time to grow tomato in most of Haiti.

Pepino dulce, with fresh fertilizer from today's trespassers

Pepino dulce or "sweet cucumber" are fruiting, grown from small cuttings collected during our May mission conference in the mountains at Montcel. Cows grazed right next to them today, thankful they didn't get trampled.

One fruit is almost ripe, they are supposed to be sightly sweet, with a mild taste of cantelope and honeydew.