We now have an improved routine for getting water to our compost site in Port-au-Prince thanks to your outstanding response to our Poopmobile emergency donation drive in May! With the new Poopmobile, our compost team can transport multiple heavy cisterns of our own water several times a week rather....
Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan. This time Theo visits with the SOIL cow – Uit (named after Theo H-UIT-ema) - out at the SOIL experimental garden and farm near Limonade. Join Theo as he questions the meaning of life thinly veiled as a study in....
As frequent readers of the SOIL blog will know, our composting waste treatment site in Port-au-Prince is housed within the boundaries of the municipal dump, Trutier. The Trutier dump site has long been one of the city's most degraded and harsh environments, thereby making it an exemplary location to....
Join SOIL's charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan. This time, Theo takes you to the local peanut factory, where some SOIL staff members are preparing peanut shells to be crushed into po pistache, the favored cover material used in Cap-Haitien. Before the shells....
More adventures in EcoSan this week with Regional Director Theo and the rest of the SOIL Cap-Haitien team. The 'Bobbycat' is already hard at work after making the journey up from Port-au-Prince in the back of the Baskil ( check out the last episode of Theo Talks for the full scoop). Come along as....
"It's a modern-day alchemy that is, on a small scale at least, helping Haitians turn something deadly into something valuable. 'If we can take all the poop that's making people sick right now," said Dr Sasha Kramer as she stuck a thermometer into a large mound of faecal waste in the middle of....
Written March 11, 2013 by Annie Reece for Resource Magazine A non-profit organisation dedicated to ‘protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources’ in Haiti is fighting a cholera epidemic in the Caribbean country by recycling human waste. Cholera – a....
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....
Lots of adventures in EcoSan this week with your favorite SOIL Regional Director Theo Huitema. Theo was on the move, traveling from Cap-Haitien to Port-au-Prince so that he could pick up a newly acquired Bobcat skid-steer loader for the SOIL Farm in Limonade. The first video is a hilarious chronicle....
Join SOIL Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan. This week, wake up on the Farm with Theo, SOIL Executive Director Sasha Kramer, Deputy Director Nick Preneta, and longtime friend Eric Nyman. Theo greets his three visitors with a sunny disposition in the early morning hours on....
