Nepal Humanitarian Relief

NEPAL EARTHQUAKE RELIEF EFFORT Hundreds of thousands of people are without shelter, food, water, and medicine in Nepal’s vast mountainous regions and capital city of Kathmandu.  In the wake of Saturdays earthquake that registered 7.8 magnitude, estimates are that over 5,000 people are dead, 50,000 people are injured, and one million children are in need…

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TROPICAL AGRICULTURE TRAINING IN FLORIDA Today Gregg and I started a class put on by Echo International on Tropical Agricultural Development in Fort Myers, Florida.  We are constantly striving to increase our knowledge and abilities to teach in third world countries and we are thankful for the opportunity to learn from a group who has…

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March Haiti Trip

In March, Gregg Knight, Brandon Myers and I traveled to Petion-ville Haiti (a “suburb” of Port-Au-Prince) with the goal of installing a dutch bucket hydroponics system on the roof of an orphanage.  We had a great trip with much success.  We were able to install the system and 40 tomato plants are growing strong right…

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