Bonsante experts discover Vetiver an incredible plant they can use to make affordable soap.

We know vetiver's capable of stopping erosion and cholera from spreading by keeping fecal matter behind hedgerows. Terraces created behind the hedgerows compost dirt with microorganisms that kill cholera in matter of hours keeping it from getting into more water supplies.

Watch this video for another reason to plant vetiver!

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Haiti Reconstruction International combats land desertification with vetiver grass hedgerows.

Our programs lets farmers use their mountainside land. We teach them to restore soil fertility, produce more food, and conserve their land for their children's children!

Our Tlud stoves eliminate the need of charcoal so farmers will not need to cut down the trees!

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on Co-operatives that will improve Seed and Food Security by decreasing post harvest food loss by increasing food production and income by improving technologies for safe storage, holding produce for higher prices.  Most important is having a backup supply of seed for emergencies.

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First youth group dedicated to conservation and food security through agriculture education to start in Gris Gris Haiti this week.  To change culture and farming practices we have to start with the youth and they can bring it home to their parents.

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HRI mission; promoting Vetiver Hedgerows finding great uses for its dried leaves!

We also built the most efficient cook stove in Haiti since this one also bakes bread!

HRI team just returned from Haiti with a very successful mission; installing the new technology institutional sized cook stoves capable of boiling 60 liter pots.  They demonstrated by cooking 70 lbs of rice and 30 pounds of dried beans with a sauce with onions garlic and sardines which fed over 250 people large helpings!

The excess heat also heats a large oven which holds 5- 18"x26" sheet pans to make bread. Ladies who previously heated with a campfire on 3 cooking stones could not believe how clean the stoves burned and everyone want to start a business selling stoves.

The health of those using the stoves will improve 100%. 

Our Tlud technology uses the energy but takes carbon out of the atmosphere leaving the carbon in the combustion chamber. This carbon we call biochar will be put back into the soil to grow more food. Taking carbon out of the atmosphere also reduces the greenhouse effect which should decrease severe weather.  Our goal is to eliminate the use of charcoal and cutting down mature trees, replacing dried vetiver grass leaves which will be compressed into pellets to sell at the markets for stove fuel.

HRI will continue promoting establishing more vetiver hedgerow and manage the soil and crops between the rows.

We also introduced them to composting toilets, starting a pilot program for families in rural mountain areas. We selected 6 families to use 5 gallon bucket toilet system. Our pilot program will be using established vetiver hedgerows that will keep humanure in place while thermophilically eradicate pathogens.  They will be lining live hedgerows with dry vetiver grass, piling deposit behind it then covering more dry grass around and over composting humanure. This dry vetiver will be our dry carbon content that will keep flies and smells away and as more deposits are made it will be composting into more fertilizer. After a year of curing the compost it will be safe for gardens.  Once this group of 6 have perfected the program we will give it to the entire community and share it with the nation. Click this ling to see what we are working at Family%20composting%20toilet%20Pilot%20program.docx

The biochar from stoves will be put into buckets that will be used for latrines for urine. The carbon eliminates the smell until it is completely saturated. This inoculated biochar will be added to the cured soil. Microorganisms will quickly find a home in the biochar and this dirt will soon turn into terra-preta the best soil on earth to produce more food.

In the terraces safely protected by the hedgerows Adding biochar from the stoves to the fertilizer made from humanure will produce terra pretta, the best soil in the world to produce more food.

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