When you plant one tiny single seed, it can grow into a full plant that has many more seeds on it. For instance, when you plant one seed of corn, it can produce an average of 800 kernels (from 500-1200) on a single plant. That’s great multiplication, or leverage, to go from one seed to more than 800. It is nearly the same as the spinach we grow in Haiti at the ATC gardens which can produce about 300 seeds per plant. We grow a kind of “spinach” that is in the same family as Amaranth (and even “pigweed” in the US, which is NOT edible) that the Haitians call “epinard” (French for spinach). In these pictures you see a great crop of epinard that is growing in the ATC demonstration gardens, ready for harvest. Wilner and the ATC staff also grow this popular and tasty vegetable in all the gardens at the orphanage, too. Epinard’s leaves can be harvested in 30-40 days after planting. Since it grows quickly and the Haitians love this nutritious, tasty food, it is always being planted. That takes many seeds. We teach and stress “seed saving” among our ATC students and staff for almost all of the crops we grow. These harvestable epinard have been grown from our own harvested seed, multiplying the production output from the first packs of seeds donated to us from Hope Seeds International. What a blessing… one that keeps on multiplying and producing more and more. All from one single tiny seed. Isn’t God amazing? We praise Him with each harvest, and we thank Hope Seeds for their life-giving seed programs around the world. We also thank all of you who support our sustainability outreaches that help Haitians learn to help themselves. These programs produce “food for life.”

Rad Hazelip, Assistant Executive Director