Dear Friends, I am writing this letter at 3:53 pm January 12, 2013. Three years ago today Port au Prince was bustling with activity as people spilled into the streets from work and school. Mothers returned home after a long day of working under the hot sun, fathers greeted their children with tired....

Another great update from the SOIL Experimental Gardens at Penye. On January 8, the SOIL team came together for the second of three harvests in the Pepper Plots, and we were once again thrilled to see how successful SOIL compost was in aiding the growth of our green peppers. Our January harvest was....

(Published January 9, 2013 for the Women in the World Foundation. By Sam Ritholtz) The third anniversary of the cataclysmic Haiti earthquake—a monster that registered 7.0 on the Richter scale, killed 300,000 people and displaced more than 1 million—is coming up on January 12 and with it will come a....

SOIL has reached another “turning point” in our composting career! The construction of our three new glasiers (a drying station for the final states of compost production) at our composting site in Mochinette was finished last week, just in time for the emptying of compost bin #1! After three rather....

Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a US 501-c3 non-profit, based in Haiti since 2006. With a mission to transform wastes into resources, SOIL has spent the last 6 years working with communities to develop sustainable sanitation solutions where human wastes are converted into....