Grown in Haiti

Grown in Haiti 🌱 501(c)(3) rooted in Cap Rouge, Haiti. 25,000+ trees planted. 50+ farming families restoring land through regenerative practices.

Growing trees, soil & self-sufficiency. Support: growninhaiti.org/donate

We have been searching for Indigenous and traditional seed stock. Then this came out of our recent planting in Cap Rouge...
09/17/2026

We have been searching for Indigenous and traditional seed stock. Then this came out of our recent planting in Cap Rouge.

The seed came to us locally. We do not yet know the variety, how old it is, or its history. That is exactly what we want to learn.

What we do know is that Haiti has a documented history of its own maize diversity, and generations of farmers have kept it moving through families, neighbors, and local markets.

Which leaves us with a question. What has Haiti kept alive through the generations?

If you grow an old variety of corn or other food crop, or know a family that has saved the same seed for generations, send us the local name and the story behind it. Comments or DM, both reach us.

We are looking for the stories as much as the seeds.

Ki kalite semens nou toujou genyen lakay nou? Ki moun ki toujou ap konsève grenn pa yo? 🌽

Sources: Races of Maize in the West Indies (National Academy of Sciences, 1960); Seed System Security Assessment, Haiti (2010)

The southern mountains of Haiti hold the work: a community nursery, trees going into the ground, rainwater held in ciste...
07/17/2026

The southern mountains of Haiti hold the work: a community nursery, trees going into the ground, rainwater held in cisterns, and women farmers leading in Cap Rouge.

Thirty-six people have already given $2,410 to keep it growing. Grown in Haiti is the only project selected from Haiti in Ma Earth’s current funding round, and there are less than five days left.

This round runs on quadratic funding, which means the number of people who give counts for more than the size of any single gift. Ten people giving $10 unlocks more than one person giving $100. A small gift from you can help release up to $15,000 in matching funds for regenerative work in Cap Rouge.

Two ways to be part of it: give what you can, since every gift is matched, and share this post so more hands join in. The round closes July 21.

Link in bio: maearth.com/growninhaiti/68d21ff3

Men anpil, chay pa lou. Many hands make the load lighter.

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Sitting here in Barbados and a Scaly-naped Pigeon lands nearby, dark body with that copper shine on the neck. Ranmye. Th...
07/11/2026

Sitting here in Barbados and a Scaly-naped Pigeon lands nearby, dark body with that copper shine on the neck. Ranmye. The same bird that moves through the hills in Cap Rouge.

For a second the distance closed. Different island, different language around me, and there it was doing the same thing it does back home.

That is the Caribbean. The islands get talked about like they are far apart, but the land carries the same life across all of it. Same birds, same trees, same rhythms showing up under different names.

Home found me here without me looking for it.

Nou se yon sèl Karayib.

🇭🇹🇧🇧🇩🇴🇩🇲🇻🇨🇱🇨🇨🇺🇵🇷🇯🇲🇬🇾🇹🇹

.🇺🇸 From January through June, we kept reading the land in Cap Rouge.More than 100 species were documented through field...
07/06/2026

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🇺🇸 From January through June, we kept reading the land in Cap Rouge.

More than 100 species were documented through field observation, including 9 endemic birds and 3 endemic amphibians. Across 19 species on our syntropic lines, tree survival held at 100%, and 492 saplings were shared beyond the monitored site.

Our weather station came online on April 9, recording conditions every five minutes. Every reading earns its place in a decision: what to mulch, where to plant, how to hold shade, where to capture water.

Thank you to Re:Earth Initiative for helping us build a long-term record of climate, biodiversity, and regeneration in Cap Rouge.

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🇭🇹 Depi janvye rive jen, nou kontinye li sa tè a ap montre nou nan Kap Wouj.

Nou dokimante plis pase 100 espès atravè obsèvasyon sou teren yo, ladan gen 9 zwazo endemik ak 3 anfibyen endemik. Sou liy sentwopik nou yo, 19 espès pyebwa kenbe ak 100% siviv, epi nou pataje 492 plantil ak kominote nou.

Estasyon meteyo nou an te kòmanse mache 9 avril. Depi lè sa a, li ap pran done chak 5 minit. Chak done ede nou konnen kisa pou nou paye, kote pou nou plante, kijan pou nou kenbe lonbraj, ak kote pou nou ranmase dlo.

Mèsi ak Re:Earth Initiative paske yo ede nou konstwi yon baz enfòmasyon sou klima, divèsite biyolojik, ak rejenerasyon nan Kap Wouj.

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This introduction is overdue, but the people on these slides have been part of Grown in Haiti for a while now.A board do...
06/28/2026

This introduction is overdue, but the people on these slides have been part of Grown in Haiti for a while now.

A board does not always show up in the field. The direction it holds still shapes everything that grows from it. The work in Cap Rouge runs on land, water, and the hands that tend them. These are the people who keep that work steady and help us think clearly about where it goes next.

Board of Directors: Christopher Paul, Sabrina Greig, Nerissa Nefeteri Olugbala, Yashica Smith, Regine Zamor, and Carmelle Cottrell.

Board of Advisors: Brad Learmonth and Kensler Telfort.

Each of them brings something the work needs, from finance and governance to community, ecology, and lived understanding of Haiti. Swipe through to meet them.

Se ansanm n ap grandi.

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What began in Cap Rouge in 2014 with a single planted plot has grown into a community nursery, a farmer network, water s...
06/27/2026

What began in Cap Rouge in 2014 with a single planted plot has grown into a community nursery, a farmer network, water storage that carries trees through the dry season, and a Farmer Support Program working with over 50 families, women first. The land has carried it, and so have the people
farming alongside us.

This week we learned that Grown in Haiti was chosen from 800 projects worldwide for Ma Earth Funding Round 3, a collective fund for community-led regeneration. From July 1 to 21, every contribution to our project is matched from a shared pool. The match grows with the number of
people who give. A small amount, given alongside many others, pulls more from the pool than a single large one.

That is why many hands matter here. When the round opens, the most useful thing you can do is give a little and bring one person with you.

The round opens July 1. Follow the page, mark the date, and think now of one person you will invite to give with you.

Men anpil, chay pa lou 🇭🇹

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06/09/2026

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🇺🇸 Meanwhile, I’m outside introducing myself to every plant that moves. 🌿😂

This is Mimosa pudica, often called the sensitive plant. With a gentle touch, its leaves fold inward almost immediately.

Some friendships require patience. This one just needed a proper introduction.

Nature is always responding. We just have to slow down enough to notice.

What did you call this plant growing up?

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🇭🇹 Pandan gen moun k ap bay tèt yo pwoblèm pou mwen, mwen menm mwen deyò a ap fè zanmi ak plant yo. 🌿😂

Sa a se Mimosa pudica, yon ti plant ki fèmen fèy li tousuit lè ou manyen l dousman.

Mwen jis pase salye l, epi li timid sou mwen. 😂

Lanati toujou ap pale ak nou. Fòk nou pran tan nou, rete atantif, epi aprann remake jan li reponn.

Ki non nou bay plant sa a nan zòn pa nou?

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06/08/2026

Knowledge becomes powerful when it is shared, practiced, and passed forward.

Here, AgriNatif team leaders are teaching local youth how to mulch newly planted trees, protect the soil, conserve moisture, reduce weeds, and continue caring for each tree as it grows.

Planting is only the beginning. Stewardship is what gives a tree the chance to survive.

Each lesson shared today strengthens the knowledge our communities will carry tomorrow. This is how regeneration spreads: from hand to hand, tree to tree, and generation to generation.

06/02/2026

The branch was so loaded it was starting to give, so we harvested to save it. Sometimes the tree decides the timing for you.

Mangos everywhere on the ground after. My mom working the ground behind me, gathering what came down. We have done this together our whole lives, and I got to share the same quiet with my daughter when she was here with me.

This is what a healthy tree gives back. More than one season can hold, enough to pass down through hands and generations.

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