Communicating God's Love to a Hurting World! : Agricultural missions in action

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Agricultural missions in action

We will be presenting a variety of faith based organizations who are actively using agricultural as a means of ministry.

This is the first of many:

ECHO exists to reduce hunger and improve lives through agricultural training and resources. A non-denominational Christian organization, its international headquarters is located on a tropical agriculture demonstration farm in North Fort Myers, Florida.
ECHO

Chapin Living Waters exists to help poor people in developing countries grow vegetables when there is insufficient rain. We offer simple, sustainable technologies for subsistence farming, bringing hope to the poorest people and the opportunity to solve their own problems.

_http://www.chapinlivingwaters.org

Videos on Chapin Living Waters site

http://www.chapinlivingwaters.org/#!video-demos/c1br5

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Man of Peace Development

Chapin Living Waters

JL, Patt & Friends is working with Double Harvest and other partners to develop an agricultural project to assist Haitian and Bahamian families with food to eat and jobs.

J L Williams

Double Harvest

Chapin Living Waters

Fellowship of Christian Farmers
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Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan's Purse

Agricultural projects

If you got down this far...you may be interested in my agricultural background:

Part of my Linkedin Profile.:

●   With the perfection of the art and science of lettuce growing, we became the     grower/supplier of choice for both Kohl’s and Sentry (Godfrey Co/Flemming Co.), the two top food chain stores in Wisconsin at the time. Marketing was not a challenge.

●   Had a high tech irrigated lettuce farm in the City of Glendale (Suburb now of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

●   Specialized in growing Bibb, Romaine, Boston and Leaf lettuce. Had the highest quality lettuce by applying foliar applications of key minor elements as needed and keeping soil nutrients and PH at optimum levels.

Attended the first Ag Expo in Tulare California in Feb 1968 to see and learn about the latest technology for growing lettuce. Also toured the lettuce growing areas from San Diego to San Francisco. Many years later attended the same event as a volunteer for Chapin Living Waters manning their booth...shared with Jain Irrigation Co.
www.chapinlivingwaters.org
Also, maintained Chapin's website from 2006-2014 as a volunteer and represented them at several conferences.

● Two challenges to a profitable crop were too much or too little water.

●    As a result we designed and implemented a drainage system that drained the excess water from the soil in early spring at least 2 weeks earlier than without the system, thereby drying and warming up the soil early and producing our first crop while supplies from the South and West still had a high price.

●   For lack of rain, we had an irrigation system that supplied water when and where we needed it.

●   Designed and built 3 “Plastic Houses” so we could get a head start on the season by transplanting lettuce into the field in mid April and thereby harvesting our first crop by June 1st, favorably competing with higher priced lettuce from “warmer” climates.

●   As a result of the above, we produced two and sometimes three crops of lettuce a year!

●   As a result of economic expansion of the City of Glendale, and installation of sewer and water to our property, and with high taxes, we were forced out of business. Developed farm into Industrial Park.