Category: 2014 Gardening Class

11th Week of the Garden Class

This week we planted beans in plastic bottles and taught the students about RECYCLING!

plastic bottle garden

 On the 11th week of the garden
 project, the teacher approach with the students the
 recycling process. What trash can undergo the recycling
 process.
    – What can we do with plastic bottle?
    – How we can recycle plastic bottle?
  At the end, the student we ordored to take refuse plastic
 bottle and recycle them so to put seed into them. In order
 to show that we can recycle the things around us.

    Key Words
     – Recycling: The action of passing again
 through a cycle of changes or treatments, in order to regain
 materials for human use.

     – Bio degradable: Capable for being chemically
 degraded

     – Non degradable: Incapable of being
 chemically degraded.
 Mo Kle
    – Resiklaj: Aksyon pou pase dechè nan
 transfòmasyon pou chanje oubye trete yo, pou  ka
 rejwenn yo pou moun sèvi.

    – Dekonpoze: Tout matyè ki kapab
 degradasyon pou sibi transfòmasyon

     – Pa kapab dekonpoze: tout sa ki pa kapab sibi
 degradasyon.

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Garden Class ” 10th week “

For this 10th week of the Garden Class, the Students were taught firstly, on breeding, tree nursery and vegetable plantation.They learnt how to do them as well. Secondly, it was the english class, the students reviewed the last three vocabulary words they had the last Saturday and leanrt three new more. Lately, they visited the rabbit cage so to clean it. They were excited to feed them.

KEY WORDS

*Breeding: sexual propagation of plants or animals.

*Resourcefulness the possibility to use things around to solve a problem without spending to much efforts or money.

*Tree nursery: space used to do seeding of trees ranged in order, until they become adult so to be transplanted.

MO KLE

Elvaj: aksyon pou fe bet ak plant grandi ak pwopaje.

Rezolibilite: kalite yon bagay ki ka rezoud san ou pa bezwen deplwaye yon pil efo oubyen depanse lajan.

Pepinye: kote yo semans grandi epi pou yo ka replante yo.

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Garden and Art Class

May 3rd,2014 ” 9th weekend “

This morning ,we keep filling the compost box and we watered the garden. Then, mezidor told the Children about Agriculture feast,its impotance. The Art teacher draw with the children various trees,flowers,vegetables and fruits. And after ,we went to the Haitian  university of agronomy , we visited the agriculture ministry and the annual fair.

  • Annual Fair 
  • Home-made 
  • Exportation / ImportationImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImage

bunny power!

In February 2014 we took a team trip to the mountains to learn about rabbit husbandry. Then we built our custom rabbit hutch and just yesterday filled it with bunnies for our weekly Gardening Class.


The entire Project HOPE Art team would like to thank Brian Peltz of ISEC, Inc. for single-handedly jump starting our new Bunny Rabbit Husbandry Program.

How Rabbits Can Save the World (It Ain’t Pretty) With no religious taboos against consuming bunny meat, the animal may be a key ingredient in the fight against hunger. It also can be raised grain-free. It is a fact universally acknowledged that rabbits reproduce at a rapid rate. But did you know that rabbit meat is kosher, halal and acceptable for Hindus who decline beef for religious reasons? All of that is good news for the world-wide war on hunger—if bad news for bunnies. Rabbits Over 1,700 Haitian rabbit producers now maintain some 1,250 rabbit facilities, Dr. Steven Lukefahr says, which are home to 32,650 breeding rabbits. rabbits community The program has grown by 142% in the last two years and has helped increase family income by an average of $19.95 a month per family with some producers seeing as much as $200 a month in income from meat sales, a significant boost in a country where the average annual family income is $1,700.
Read more: How Rabbits Can Save the World (It Ain’t Pretty) | Time Magazine (link: http://world.time.com/2012/12/14/how-rabbits-can-save-the-world-it-aint-pretty/#ixzz2lJ6EjQv5)

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