When we first rented land in the northern Haitian community of Mouchinette to build a new composting waste treatment facility a little over a year ago, the only thing on the property was a big mango tree. In the year since, the SOIL team has completely transformed the site into a beautiful....
Dear friends, At dawn on Monday morning, Clotes, SOIL's Poopmobile driver, will be pulling out of the SOIL's Port-au-Prince office gates in a new Poopmobile to do the biweekly toilet drum pickup in tent camps around the capital. The 5,000 people living in tent cities who currently count on SOIL's....
We recently received notice that we're one of two early prize winners in Ashoka's Nutrients for All contest! (Check out the Ashoka Press Release here). According to Ashoka, "The challenge is clear: we need innovative solutions that will ensure the availability of nutrients for healthy, natural....
Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan. This time Theo visits with the SOIL beekeepers as they begin the harrowing task of transferring the bees from the log that they arrived in to their freshly made hive boxes. Here's a quote from the video to give....
Our beloved Poopmobile has died after 3 years of transporting drums from the Port-au-Prince tent camps to the SOIL compost site, and we are not able to fix it. We have spent the last 2 weeks using our 2 pickups to transport 300 drums per week, but this means we have had to suspend other operations....
Last Tuesday, we had a visit from our neighbors--all 14 of them. They wanted to know who we were, what we did, and why we were doing it. Our inquisitive neighbors were from nearby Harmony House orphanage and they ranged in age from 7 to 17 years of age. They quickly declared that they were....
As many of you know SOIL's dear Executive Director Sasha Kramer loves animals. Unfortunately, while attempting to wake up Uit the cow for a late night snack of a hot, salty potato, Sasha became tangled in Uit's lead rope and was dragged across the field at the SOIL farm in Limonade. Sasha has....
On June 4th 2013, members of the SOIL agricultural teams from Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien will travel to Sadhana Forest, a remote ecovillage on the southeastern border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Located in what is known as the ' boukara', or desert, of Anse-à-Pitre, Haiti, Sadhana....
Dear Friends, Day after day our agronomists bring in epic harvests of spinach, beets, sorghum, yams, and other vegetables, and people are starting to take note of the positive impact that EcoSan compost has on production yields. On the compost supply side, our hearts are rich with stories from SOIL....
By Mark Sanders in Permaculture Magazine on Wednesday, 8th May 2013. Haiti is often seen as having the worst sanitation and clean water access in the Western hemisphere. But with the help of SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), waste resources are being transformed into compost....