Day 3 Planting Trees

Today we planted trees!

Well first we viewed the school here to watch their morning ceremonies . They sang in creole and English  , recited psalm 23 in creole and raised the Haitian flag. 

I took some videos but I don't think I can upload to this blog. 

Then we went to the three angels nursery  where they are growing many fruit trees and vegetables and plan to sell them to make money for the orphanage and other programs plus sell the fruits here in Haiti since they would be the only people with these fruits. 

Here are pictures of some of the plants . I can't remember which is which an I'm only going to upload a few. 

This is Eric the director of three angels explaining the process of the nursery . He used to run a successful nursery in California . These are dragon fruit plants

This is our team leader with breadfruit plants. Breadfruit is an amazing (non native) fruit that tastes like potato and can be made into flour and other things. 

We got to try fresh fig!

This is merenga - we ate this and it tastes like salad greens

Bananas 

Papaya

This carrot isn't ready to be harvested yet!

These are the merenga seeds we planted!

We packed the seeds in little pots and bags with dirt

We filled about 14 trays and planted about 700 trees!!

Also we met one team members friend Richard who works for ambassadors football Haiti which teaches Haitian kids how to play soccer and raise goats. They showed us a video of the program and are trying to get people to 'give a kid a kid'! Check out their website www.afhaiti. Info - I think the video about pismo the surfing goat is on there !

We also had a chocolate treat for dessert !!