Trips with agriculture.

The early morning fog melted under the bright sunshine. Fritzlin sits at the kitchen table working on his math, while I prepare our e-mails for the time on the internet at the neighbor's.

The voices outside inform me that the three workers from the village have arrived to dig tree holes. Cory’s been impressed with the dirt found under rocks. If the hole ends up being to shallow for trees, squash or other vegetables will be planted in that hole.

The last couple of weeks of travel have included a variety of agricultural time for Cory. When we went for meetings with the national church meetings a couple of weeks ago we visited Extollo International’s training center site.  Cory will be advising as their landscape designer of the property where they train Haitian workers in building and welding skills. Last year Cory went and spoke to some of the Extollo students about agricultural.

We believe that the Extollo site will be a great place to educate and show people some of the rarer fruit trees that can grow in Haiti. Being only a few minute drive from Route national one it will be much easier to visit than Délice or even Fauche’s gardens. 

Last week before three days of meetings with our Haiti leadership team for Global Partners we headed up a new mountain for us as shared in the last blog.

Yesterday Cory left early, met up with Mike, who showed us around on the mountain trip last week, and together they headed to Fauche. Cory called yesterday from Cap Haitian where he went to pick up fence and fence posts that had mistakenly been delivered north. Last night he called from Fauche. Today they will be checking our the gardens and nursery at Fauche. Tomorrow Cory hopes to be home.

The next three weeks we will be enjoying family and friends visiting! We look forward to the great fellowship we will enjoy as well as to the progress we know that will occur. 

Eli and Anna experienced their first ever snow day on Monday when the cold, snowy weather shut Calvin’s classroom doors. [Updated..on their third one this week today]