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Haitian Farmers Complete Successful Agronomy Training in Jamaica
Trees That Feed Foundation received a generous grant from Conservation, Food & Health Foundation, to fund a training trip for Haitian farmers and agronomists to travel to Jamaica, to learn techniques in fruit tree propagation, planting and care. The trip took place … Continue reading
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2015 International Breadfruit Conference
Mike and Mary hit the road this week for the 2015 International Breadfruit Conference in Trinidad! The conference is hosted by the University of the West Indies (UWI) and PCS Nitrogen. UWI believes that breadfruit has the potential to improve … Continue reading
Trees at Tacius Golding High School
The Gloria Lyn Memorial Fund provided an introduction between Trees That Feed Foundation, Karlene Johnson and Tacius Golding High School, after which TTFF provided breadfruit trees and equipment. Read a report below from representatives of the Gloria Lyn Memorial Fund … Continue reading
Collaboration in the Caribbean: New program this fall!
Trees That Feed Foundation recently received a grant from The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation to facilitate a new fruit tree propagation program in the Caribbean, and we couldn’t be more excited about it! Sustainability is a priority of Trees … Continue reading
Dryer Design: Part 3
We have our next installment of solar dryer updates below! Mike continues to be hard at work and the rooftop module for the hybrid solar dryer is now finished. The sides are marine plywood and the top is sheet metal … Continue reading
Dryer Design: Part 2
Here’s the next stage! The solar dryer comprises four modules: the collector(s), lower cabinet, upper cabinet and roof. The collectors get warm in the sun, and warm air flows into the cabinet. The cabinet (lower portion) gathers the warm air … Continue reading
Dryer Design and Data
Trees That Feed Foundation’s newest project: a solar dryer for breadfruit! Based on some great preliminary work through our partnership with Northwestern, we are getting a prototype ready for the Caribbean. Mike has been hard at work on this project, as … Continue reading
Teaming up with Sandals
This past Earth Day marked the first step in an exciting new collaboration between Sandals Foundation and Trees That Feed Foundation! Under the lead of TTFF Barbados representative Sandra Myers, Sandals and TTFF joined together to provide food-bearing trees to … Continue reading
Clif Bar Fueling More Breadfruit Trees
Trees That Feed Foundation is excited to be teaming up with Clif Bar Family Foundation this year! We recently received a grant from the organization to distribute more food-bearing trees throughout the Caribbean. Clif Bar Family Foundation works to increase … Continue reading
New Video!
We are excited to share our new video with you! On National Philanthropy Day, Trees That Feed Foundation won a 2014 Philanthropy Award from Make It Better. As an award prize, a team of very talented people worked with us … Continue reading
