Cory's trip to Southern Haiti last week delivered plants to a new sustainable agricultural project at an orphanage project.He brought starfruit/carambola, jackfruit, peach palm, breadfruit, sapodilla, egg fruit, biriba, acai, cupuasu, malabar chestnut, peanut butter fruit, everbearing mulberry, lemon drop mangosteen, malay apple, Vitex donnia, miracle fruit, chaya, katuk, some ornamentals and 3 species of bamboo.
He also visited ORE an environmental group and picked up 2 new timber bamboo varieties and some seed corn.
The huge varieties that impressed him the most he ordered 3 types.
The bunch by the truck you only see the lower 1/3 of the bamboo.
One project uses converted grain bins for housing, surprisingly with the ventilation and double walls it is cool and the round shape will prevent hurricane winds damage as well as earthquake damage.
The guys returned from the project with a 'gift'. A pair of rabbits will start Fauche's rabbit project- 
Technically they belong to Gener but so far Anna's taking care of them hoping to work a deal so that she can keep the male most of the time.
3 comments:
I'm really excited to see some of the rare fruit trees you have! I have one small egg fruit tree but I'm desperately trying to find seeds or seedlings of some of the others - especially the malay apple. I'm not sure what I have to trade that you might want - perhaps some dragonfruit cuttings?
That new house is pretty cool.
How about a jelly fruit?
You already have the Peanut Butter Fruit and the Bread Fruit. Ha! Ha!
Great post!
Have a great day. :-)
Clean Water-come up for a visit sometime and Cory will share...or then next time he drives through your area maybe we can set up a meeting.
Peter-Cory forgot to add the jelly palm. The peanut butter fruit looks like tomato paste but tastes sweet and pasty [nothing like peanut butter or any other fruit].
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