Those who follow our website understand our connection with Haiti. As I worked the farm early yesterday morning, I received a text from my friend Gail Rongen in Florida alerting me to the earthquake that struck the island nation. Although saddened by the rising death toll, I am relieved to report that late yesterday afternoon, …
Category Archives: Team Guepard
Street Cleaners Beat Guns Into Brooms
“If you want to change the world, make your bed…” So begins the first chapter of Admiral McRaven’s treatise on how each of us can positively affect the world we live in and make it a better place to be. Not one of the young people of Guepard Boxing Club in Cité Soleil, Haiti has …
Spiritual Understanding
In a December 2017 interview with Kozo Hattori and Pavithra Mehta from Awakin.org, Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer said, “A spiritual understanding not practiced under fire is without value.” This is as profound a statement of spirituality as I have heard. It was part of her answer to the question, “Your Greatest Inspiration.” Dr. Aluli Meyer grew up …
What Your Right Hand Is Doing
As our farm develops, donors have been stepping up to keep the GBCCS kitchen operating four days each week. As much as I would like to share some incredible stories about our donors, I’ve decided that moving forward, I will heed the advice of Jesus, “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds …
The Promised Land
The deep green plants you see in this picture are Armenian cucumbers. They cover about 25 feet of a hundred-foot row. My family, friends and I are currently working 6,000 sq.ft. of 12,000 we hope to have planted by the end of August, though it is beginning to look as if the end of September …
Feeding Hungry Children
While we tend our small, desert farm and carefully and attentively work to achieve maximum capacity, we are asking for help to maintain our training and feeding facility in Cité Soleil, Haiti. As we’ve explained in previous posts, we intend to sell the products that the farm produces and send 100% of the revenue to …
Peace Prize
I am pleased to report that my friend and associate Justin Ricot in Haiti was announced as one of the three 2021 heroes awarded the Cité Soleil Peace Prize. The deep significance of the award can only be measured against the background from which it comes. Cité Soleil is generally regarded as one of the …
Growing Tomatoes in Arizona
Growing tomatoes in Arizona is challenging, but easier – though I can’t be certain – than growing tomatoes in Nome, Alaska. Over a year ago, Dwight and I spread a thin layer of wood chips – he calls them compost, but to me, they are wood chips – over the acre or so we are …
Learning Patience
I was not born a patient man. Two things have helped me improve my patience in recent years: my dog Clarence and agriculture. Clarence’s curiosity and playfulness combined with his great strength make him a handful, but I learned much from his trainer, Becca with K9 Offleash Training in Minneapolis. Through four hours of training, …
Meat Eater
I encountered this pig on the streets of Cité Soleil, Haiti in March 2016. I’ve been thinking about him – or her – a lot lately. I am certain he is happier rummaging on this garbage-strewn beach than the millions of pigs raised on industrial farms in a space no larger than a refrigerator. I …