Permaculture, Tropical Permaculture, Urban Gardening
My Top 25 All-Star Tropical Permaculture Plants Plants and trees only make up part of the permaculture systems we create. That said, it’s an important part, with plants and trees providing us with food, fuel, construction materials, fertilizer, shade, and much...
Cotton, Haiti, TGD Projects
It has been more than 4 years since I started working with the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA), a Haitian NGO that works to improve the lives of Haitian smallholder farmers while at the same time reforesting the country. My first work for the SFA was the Haiti...
Cotton, Haiti, TGD Projects
Growing Cotton in a Fair, Sustainable Way: A Few Thoughts on the Haiti Cotton Project Some people, when they first hear about our organic cotton project in Haiti, ask me: what are you doing to make sure the farmers are treated well? Are they getting a fair wage? Some...
Cotton, Haiti, TGD Projects
Timberland Receives Best Economic Empowerment Program Award for Haiti Cotton Project Timberland’s work with us to reintroduce cotton farming to Haiti was recently honored with the US Chamber of Commerce Citizenship Award for the Best Economic Empowerment...
