Planting for the Future

Last week we went for a visit to Pilones de Antigua that has huge greenhouses that sell vegetable and flower plants, and trees to big farms in Guatemala. We were fortunate to start at the very beginning of the process, of seeds being planted, sent to a very, very warm room to germinate and pass through all the phases of the plants or trees until they were ready to go to market.

The kids were each given a tree to plant at the children's village in Parramos. On Friday the kids planted their trees with our expert gardener, Juan Jose. We now have baby eucalyptus, teak and guayaba trees.

Our plans are to grow all our own vegetables to feed the kids and plant our own fruit trees. And so we have begun...