OAEC Guest Blog: The SOIL Permaculture Design Process

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....

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OAEC Guest Blog: Symphony of "Konpòs" with SOIL

Today’s work was to visit the SOIL composting site at the city dump in Twitye to learn about the specifics of the humanure handling and thermophilic composting practices. The SOIL Twitye compost facility is located at the city dump. The company who run the dump lost its contract about 4 month ago....

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OAEC Guest Blog: From Metal to Magic – Spending Sunday with SOIL

Our Collaboration in Haiti OAEC was invited to visit to Haiti by SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods – www.oursoil.org) as an organizational exchange to help each other further current projects. SOIL’s formal mission is “SOIL promotes dignity, health, and sustainable livelihoods through....

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OAEC Guest Blog: Wynne Farm

We met our translator today, Jean Arnaud. He is Haitian and has lived in the US off and on since he was 10 years old. He studied permaculture at UMASS and was part of the 2012 student team awarded the Champions of Change Challenge, part of President Obama’s Winning the Future initiative. Jean is a....

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OAEC Guest Blog: We Have arrived! First Evening In Port-au-Prince

After surviving an overnight flight and long morning of sleeping on the infamously freezing floor of the Miami airport, we (Kendall Dunnigan, Brock Dolman and Sashwa Burrous) arrived in the late afternoon to the warm and welcoming sounds of Haitian music pouring out of the little Port-au-Prince (PAP....

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SOIL Welcomes the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center

SOIL is pleased to welcome Brock Dolman and Kendall Dunnigan, Co-Directors of The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center's (OAEC) Permaculture & Ecological Design program in California to Haiti! OAEC and SOIL were originally brought together by our dear friends at the 11th Hour Project who are committed....

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