Us throwing clay seedballs on the nearby hills.

Salut! from Sadhana Forest Haiti.

All is well and happy here in our beautiful border town, the days are warm yet we are kindly cooled by a generous sea breeze, coupled with pleasant shade from our main tent community life in Sadhana Forest Haiti is good.

Our circle gardens are growing vigorously, up and over, spilling from their circles greener and fuller everyday. The first five radishes are showing their scarlet tops above the earth, and the beans reach for the clouds. The most content of our veg seems to be the pumpkin, popping up everywhere. I foresee an abundance of tasty soups and stews.

Here we have a pleasant evening routine of watering our gardens (although recently broken by some most welcome rain ) which requires us to pull water from the well. In an effort to save time, energy and our backs we have installed a very sturdy pulley system over the top of the well, enabling us to pull full buckets of water safely, conveniently and with much less effort. The locals like it and so do we!

Interaction with local people happens often, at the well, in the town, the border market and just about everywhere in-between. We receive interested and curious visitors regularly, inspecting our gardens, the way we pump our drinking water, joining us for meals, and often helping us with our Creole, they in turn have the opportunity to learn the given words in English, Swedish, Spanish and Italian. The beauty of international community.

We continue our tradition of free workshops, attended by volunteers and visitors, and also our open stage nights, this week having been awed with a wonderful dance and stone percussion performance from our local friends Cappy & Jackson. We enthusiastically await next weeks fun.

Following a very informative clayballing workshop given by Francesco, we are off on walks a couple of times a week gathering baskets of seeds from the local trees and plants, bringing then home and creating a special mix of seeds, coconut hair and clay, to be rolled into balls and discs which we leave to dry in the plentiful Haitian sun, once dry we return them to the baskets and walk to the hills and throw them across the land with love, starting the process of reforestation. “May there be many more forests to grow people”

With love from Sadhana Forest Haiti