by admin | Feb 5, 2014 | Academics, Alumni, Community, Community Driven, Mission, Phil Murphy, Spiritual Development, Student, Uncategorized, Values, Village Life
Charlie Smith was one of founders of the h.e.a.r.t. program. His passion for the Lord and the lost have inspired countless people around the world to follow hard after God. In this newly published biography, you can read about the dream Charlie had for h.e.a.r.t. and...
by admin | Feb 2, 2014 | Academics, Alumni, Gardening, Mushrooms, Nutrition, Permaculture, Sustainable Agriculture
When I began researching mushrooms, it was purely for the purpose of eating them. I was blown away by the role that fungi can and does play in the world outside of human consumption. Fungi play an important role in the health and well being of many different...
by admin | Jan 29, 2014 | Alumni, How To, Mushrooms, Nutrition, Permaculture, Recipe, Student, Uncategorized
Here is a recipe that I have developed for cooking mushrooms using some Asian flavors. This recipe is best with shiitake mushrooms but could be used for almost any type of mushroom including button and portabella mushrooms. Shiitake mushrooms that Erik grew on...
by admin | Jan 26, 2014 | Appropriate Technology, Community, Mission, Mushrooms, Nutrition, Student, Sustainable Agriculture, Village Life
Although collecting mushrooms has been a part of everyday life in many cultures for thousands of years, growing mushrooms is a relatively new practice and there is still a lot that is unknown about mushrooms. Mushroom cultivation has the potential to be an important...
by admin | Jan 23, 2014 | Appropriate Technology, Gardening, How To, Mushrooms, Student, Uncategorized, Village Life
Most of the mushroom cultivation that I read about was being done in a high-tech way in sterile labs with petri dishes and expensive pasteurization equipment. I was interested in growing mushrooms as a food source in developing countries where this type of production...
by admin | Jan 20, 2014 | Mushrooms, Student, Uncategorized
One of the most valuable experiences I had at h.e.a.r.t. was the student project. Each student is given a budget, time and resources to learn about a particular topic of interest in doing development work. I chose growing mushrooms because it was something that I knew...
by admin | Jan 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
One of the main things you learn in cross-cultural classes is that cultures are all different and we should refer to them as different, not wrong. Those of us who have responded to that calling of cross-cultural ministry always pride ourselves on recognizing this...
by admin | Jan 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
An informative video segment on harvesting, processing and cooking green papaya AS A VEGETABLE!
by admin | Jan 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
I like bananas. I know that mangos are sweet. I like papayas, PAPAYAS!…but what about green papayas? Sure most people know what a papaya is and some of us (myself for sure) think that sometimes they smell like a dirty diaper. It’s a tropical fruit that makes a...
by admin | Jan 1, 2014 | Community, Community Driven, Gardening, Generation Y, Josh Henry, Mission, Nutrition, Values, Village Life, Worldview
And What Does the Lord Require of You? will give you a little background for this entry, Josh’s second blog. When our 2SOL team was in Zimbabwe in July, one of the main goals was to implement nutrition gardens at 2 different schools. Before we started working at the...
