Visitors

This week has been a fun week so far. On Saturday we had a group of 7 people from from West Virginia and Virginia come to visit for 1 week. One of them is Uncle Roger (Kyrk's uncle) and along with him is his son Tony with his wife and daughter. So not only is it great to have visitors here, it is great to have family visiting.
The men are working on replacing the roof on part of the conference center. It leaked really bad and desperately needed to be replaced.
We are so thankful that they have come and helped out in this way.

The view from the top of what they are doing.


This is Tony and Boss TiJean

Garden

At the beginning of April we decided to start a garden. We had heard about Square Foot gardening and wanted to try it.

This is our Haitian version of a square foot garden. So far it has been doing fairly well.

We also wanted to see how successful we would be growing vegetables in only compost in old tires.

These are all techniques that we are trying, hoping to find out what works so we can have a garden when we move to Atrel. In Atrel there is very little good soil and it is very difficult to grow many vegetables, so we are experimenting. Our next project is going to be making compost, to find the best methods for doing that.
On Wednesday we ate the first things from our garden. The romaine lettuce was such a wonderful treat. The people here do not grow romaine lettuce, so it is a treat. We also had one cucumber that we felt was big enough to use in the salad.

Having the garden has turned into a great family project. The kids have each claimed a tire and help take care of their plants. They were very excited to finally be able to pick something from their little gardens.

Garden