June 6th, 2014. During our trip to Haiti, we reached out to the local TB/AIDS hospital that receives breadfruit flour…
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First Fruit in Haiti
May, 2014. Exciting news: We have our first fruit in Haiti! Mike and Mary have officially made it to Haiti…
1,000 Cashew Trees for Haiti
August 13th, 2014. While our largest focus here at TTFF is on breadfruit, we also distribute trees of other varieties. Depending…
Randi and Afia are off to Jamaica
June 5th, 2014. Two graduate students from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Randi and Afia, have…
Mary McLaughlin and TTFF on NPR
July, 2013. Jerome McDonald interviewed Mary McLaughlin on NPR’s Worldview. In a wide ranging 15 minute discussion, Mary and Mike…
Haiti 2013
February, 2013. Mary and Mike McLaughlin just returned from a busy trip to Haiti. They made many stops, including visits to…
Entrepreneurship in Haiti
February, 2014. From Eric Helgemo, our Haitian representative: Here is a nice picture of one of our new tree vendors…
Breadfruit, a great food source
Here’s an article worth reading from National Geographic! Lots of information about breadfruit as a food source. From National Geographic. “Although obesity…
How to cook breadfruit like a Jamaican
Here are a couple of links to videos showing how to prepare breadfruit, Jamaican style. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmZJBHyJjEo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq3NiY7F2iA You’ll see different…
Food crisis brewing in Haiti
“Famine” sounds like an old fashioned word. There were famine stories in the Bible, although more recently famines have occurred…