Haiti Post Earthquake Reconstruction and Cultural Preservation Tour
February 2013, Date: TBD
Workshops | Composting | Aquaponics | Beekeeping | Entrepreneurship
Reposting, download PDF. Please share. My NYC Permaculture friend, Ki Ki, is hosting this workshop in his country of Haiti. He has been working on this for several years and this will be a wonderful opportunity for learning, helping and understanding.
(Can you help fund the Chief Instigator at MoS Collective!? — contact via web site. We would like to help Ki KI teach the EM-1 bokashi, fertilizing, cleaning up pollution with the beneficial microbes plus learn and help these people sustain themselves. Teach the teachers.)“The most important work one can do is to educate people and help build good soil.” – EcoCities Summit Montreal 2011, Haitian Guest Speaker.
FROM KI KI (Ulky):
Dear Friends,
One lesson we should never forget from the catastrophe of the earthquake in Haiti is how critical it is to preserve the ability to produce local food. The maroons that settle the mountains of Haiti were in ingenious in the way they integrate native Tainos, Europeans and Africans tradition to produce everything they needed to live entirely from local materials.
Today that knowledge base is on the verge of extinction. It is vital to preserve the local medicinal cultural knowledge for future generations. Please join us as we embark on a mission to restore food security and establish a living museum of wild local medicinal plants in a hard hit remote mountainous village in Barriere Jeudi, Leogane, Haiti.
FOOD SECURITY
Nu-Growth is a farm, the first of its kind in Haiti that aims to remove organic market waste from the streets for producing organic food, generating income and employment. We will be working with grassroots community groups to educate and help build simple and sustainable aquaponic systems from locally available materials. With an aquaponics system, fresh vegetables and protein in the form of fish are easily produced on a regular basis. The closed circuit aquaponics reduces dependencies on other variables such as land, water and fertilizers.
About The Trip
CULTURAL PRESERVATION LIVING MUSEUM OF WILD HAITIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS
With extreme deforestation many of the wild traditional medicinal plants are on the verge of extinction. The living museum of wild Haitian medicinal plants will be a center for the conservation of wild medicinal plants. Thru experiential education and local traditional teaching “guiding not giving” we will reconnect with wild local ancient healing herbs and practices and establish the “medicinal trail”. We will participate in the identification and preservation of the wild local medicinal plants as we follow the ancient path of the medicine man to a 60 acre mountainous wild nature preserve. The living museum store will identify local artist, medicinal plants, products and resources that have potential market value and explore with the community the possibility of forming a local or internet store coming soon.
Join us on July 28th for fundraiser to support the trip. More info TBA.
Flight information and staying arrangements:
Flight Leaving from JFK to Port-au-Prince with American airlines, tickets should cost from $450.00 to $550.00
Hotel
Two choices : camping at the site free of charge or The
Arawak Hotel which is in Leogane 20 minutes away and has free internet, about 200 dollars for the week.
Food
Plan for 15- 25 dollars a day for food.
Ground Transportation
All ground transportation For more information about will be arranged .
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If you can’t join us, you can still help us with the project by making a tax-deductible cash donation to support this trip, or to sign up please.
Download the PDF for contact info.
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