Mid September BF UPDATE!

Greetings all,

Last week was a bit of a doozy! I (Chris) spent 13 hours running around Managua is one of the more challenging days I have had here in Nicaragua over the last 6 years. Customs, shippers, warehousers, a BIG mess that FINALLY yielded 1700 books for our new community center. Whilst I was battling bureaucracy and paperwork folks here on the farm were busy. Rachel's parents were visiting from the US and they jumped right into seeding in the garden, building beds, planting lemongrass and making a WONDERFUL African groundnut stew with local chicken. Tom, Eira, Rachel, and Heather have been kicking butt up here on the farm and down at the center in town. Heather and Eira especially are becoming increasingly more active and interactive with the Cafe Infantil and along with Rachel in the English classes that are being held at the community Center.

I have been busy tracking down breadfruit trees to plant, palm seeds to sow in the nursery, building a ferrocement water tank. and POR FIN, getting our new to us 250 watt wind generator mounted on its nearly 40 foot tower (13m).

ITS GUANABANA SEASON!!!! Sugar apples are coming too and we are still chowing mangoes. I estimate we have harvested one ton of mango this year from our orchard.

Nevis, Aleida, Rachel, her folks, and others harvested our corn this week. Once it is dehusked we will have harvested almost 400 pounds of OG corn for our food for this upcoming year. That is A LOT of Tortillas.

Congrats to Nevis and Aleida for such hard work.

SWEEEET!!!!

Best to all,

Chris Shanks

Chris@projectbonafide.com