Well, it's our last night in Haiti...  our team is reflecting on the amazing experiences they've had this week and preparing for the return back into the world of America. They've been processing the sharp contrasts between the two all week. 

In the morning, we headed back to the Bercy campus to work on the greenhouse project. After three days of packing dirt in bags and planting topsoil, it can get easy to lose sight of the big vision of the greenhouse project. Yet, today, there were thousands of seeds planted and amazingly, the avocado seeds we planted on Monday had started to sprout already today. It was an excellent reminder that we're not just planting seeds; we're laying the foundation for thousands of trees. We planted mahogany, coconut, citrus trees, acacia, palm, mangos, teak, neem, cedar, avocado and more in the past few days. At the end of our time today, we had planted 6,800 trees!  The teamwork, determination and fierce work ethic of our group is the only way that was accomplished. While we set a crazy goal of 10,000 trees, we would have easily accomplished that goal except for the realities of Haiti. One of our biggest obstacles is the fact that we had 8 team members daily dedicated to digging up and sifting through topsoil. When we arrived, we found out that would also be part of our task. Yet, it's Haiti, and those things happen quite often. Next week, that Haitian agronomy team will take over the rest of the project and work toward completion. 

I've attached a number of pictures to give you a window into our experiences today. 

Todd