OAEC Guest Blog: SOIL Cap-Haitien
We arrived by bus in Cap-Haitien, the second largest city in Haiti located on the north shore. The bus ride was a 6-hour journey in which the bus barreled on and off paved and dirt roads, around donkeys, along cliff sides, and avoided tanker trucks on hair pin turns on steep mountain passes – very bonding with my Haitian seat neighbors! The countryside changed radically from one watershed divide to the next – arid yucca and cactus covered hillsides to banana-coconut-palm tropical food forests. We were warmly greeted by two of the SOIL Cap-Haitien staff, Monika Roy, Project Coordinator, and Theo Huitema, Regional Director, who scooped us up at the bus station and drove us to the SOIL city house in downtown Cap. 