by admin | Nov 23, 2013 | Ashley Carter, Community, Nutrition, Primitive Cooking, Recipe, Values, Village Life, Worldview
Growing up, I hated to hear that dinner was going to be leftovers. I mean, yuck. I wanted something hot, fresh and new not a buffet of things I didn’t eat that much of the first time around. And I know I’m not alone in these thoughts. But maybe it’s because we’ve had...
by admin | Nov 20, 2013 | Community, Gardening, Josh Jamison, Nutrition, Permaculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Village Life
Nitrogen fixing plants are a very special tool for those doing poverty relief work and sustainable agriculture. Nitrogen is one of the key elements determining plant growth and is analogous to gasoline for a vehicle. For poor subsistence farmers, securing enough...
by admin | Nov 14, 2013 | Community, Culture, Faith Gallian, Generation Y
As I child, I loved playing hide and seek with my older brother. He would count to 100, skipping several numbers, of course, so I wouldn’t have enough time to hide. Then he would say those magic words and no matter how prepared I was, it would always surprise me,...
by admin | Nov 12, 2013 | Appropriate Technology, Community, Community Driven, Culture, Gardening, Mission, Student, Sustainable Agriculture, Village Life
the team from h.e.a.r.t. in Callebasse, Haiti Today’s post is a tangent from our typical blogs. The Fall 2013 class had the opportunity to travel to Haiti to see first hand how the things that they are learning at h.e.a.r.t. are being used in a developing...
by admin | Nov 8, 2013 | Community, Community Driven, Culture, Mission, Nutrition, Phil Murphy, Spiritual Development, Sustainable Agriculture, Uncategorized, Values, Village Life, Worldview
One of the first things a person sees when living in the rural areas of Haiti is the great number of children. The United Nations estimates that more than 50% of the Haitian population is under the age of 20. When our family moved the House of Blessings Orphanage form...
