It’s a warm, sunny day here in the SOIL Cap-Haitien office. We’re bustling with activities: building a new office, expanding our toilet service network, and of course – making compost. Since we opened our permanent compost site last year, we’ve filled 18 bins with a mix of human waste and cover....

With help from our friends at the Instituto Tecnológico San Ignacio de Loyola (ITESIL ) in the Dominican Republic, we are now able to look at our farm’s soils in quantifiable terms nutrient-wise! We were even able to compare the soil results to a SOIL compost sample and found that organic matter....