You may have noticed that here at SOIL, we love showing off pictures of our compost's efficacy - enormous heads of cabbage, piles of peppers, and more*! These pictures may be worth a thousand words, but we also love hard data, so we recently sent off our compost to be tested by the soil and compost....
To view the results on this page, use the arrow and magnifying glass icons below. To download the results as a PDF, click the link at the bottom. [gview file="https://www.oursoil.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/PAP-compost.pdf"]
The SOIL Permaculture Design Process After touring the SOIL collection and processing sites around Cap-Haitien, we arrived at the SOIL office, farm, and associated KOMOP farm properties (KOMOP is a farm collective of SOIL staff members whose name is a combination of Komite = Committee and Opòtinite....
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....
[ Read this information in English.] SOIL òganize tanzantan atelye pou montre SOIL sèvi ak teknoloji sanitasyon ekolojik (EkoSan) an Ayiti. Fòmasyon sa gen ladan yon rezime de pwogram yo nou, kom pa egzamp: teknoloji ke nou sèvi, leson nou te aprann nan developman teknoloji sa, e pwopozisyon pou....
[ Li enfòmasyon sa a an kreyòl ayisyen.] SOIL conducts regular one-day workshops on SOIL’s use of ecological sanitation (EcoSan) technology in Haiti. This workshop includes an overview of SOIL’s programs, technologies used, lessons learned, and implementation suggestions. Read more about past....
We’ve been gearing up all week for the celebration of Haiti's Labor and Agriculture Day, which falls every year on the first of May. As two-thirds of Haitians farm, this holiday highlights the significance of agriculture to the structure of life here. It is one of my favorite times of the year here....
By Paul Rauber in Sierra Magazine, May/June 2014 Technology for disposing of human waster hasn't changed a whole lot since the invention of the flush toilet in the 16th century. These days, you push a handle or button, and water whisks waste away to either a septic system or a sewage treatment plant....
By Sasha Kramer, SOIL in the Huffington Post, April 22, 2014 Gone are the days of sanitation languishing in the shadows while other basic human needs take the spotlight. In the past decade, the topic of sanitation has emerged from back-room discussions among engineers at water conferences to a high....
SOIL Letters is a blog series featuring some of the beautiful letters we've received over the years in support of the work we're doing in Haiti. Impact. If you spend much time reading about non-profits or NGOs these days, you're sure to come across that word pretty often. And for good reason - it's....