New additions to BF!!!

Greetings Bona Fide friends and supporters,

Well I have been back in Nicaragua for about one and half weeks, and yes the internet world is SLOW again. Everything else though is moving quickly. Whilst I was away our diligent crew of interns and volunteers under the careful tutelage of David Ortiz finished our new bread/pizza oven with a tiled finish to the pizza prep table, we re-used broken tiles from my house construction to eliminate building waste. This project was carried out as an exercise in design/build of bread ovens with natural materials to a high end finish, my for profit venture, Living Ssytems Solutions provided the funding in hopes that the skills gained by local folks and the showpiece space of having the oven at BF will attract future clients and create more well paid local employment on the island. Well at the very least we will eat lots of pizza with our friends. Same can be said for the worm bin which is the zinc roofed long narrow structure featured in another foto in this week's update. We just put over 3 pounds of worms in there and Nevis made a bed of dried manure and finished compost. Those wormies are happy!! We are hoping to use the black gold produced by our new friends to take the food gardens and medicinal production to another level. Nice work all!

One of the last two fotos feature the final tile roofing of my porch on my soon to complete home at BF and hopefully a new sense of peace to come along with it as I finally move into my new digs after living, camping, and sleeping all over the farm for over 7 years. Yeah seven. The small thatch structure with a black plastic finish is our new mini solar barn for wood drying and storage, no more moist wood winters for BF!! Congrats to Hector, our new local project leader and volunteer MC. Same to be said for Martha Fuchs our current volunteer coordinator who helped Hector knock out this new much needed additions.

Well folks new additions to our growing project. Come eat pizza and we will throw the scraps to the wormies. One big cycle. Sweet.

Best to all and thanks for your support,

Chris Shanks
Co-director, Project Bona Fide