A Successful Peanut Harvest in Cap-Haitien

Some great news from the SOIL farm in Cap-Haitien: a recent harvest from the experimental peanut gardens yielded very promising results. SOIL compost nearly doubled the yield (based on weight in lbs.) for a local variety of peanut. We planted four large plots in our experimental garden, each containing four "treatments" - an Indian peanut variety with and without compost, and a local variety with and without compost. Though the compost seemed to have only marginal effects on the Indian variety, it produced impressive results in the local variety, creating an average yield between the 4 plots of 1.1 lbs without compost and 1.9 lbs with compost. We ...