NEWS

A quick update from CODEP, and why your support matters right now. Dear friends, There is a lot happening at CODEP right now. Some of it is reforestation, of course. That is the heart of the work. But as anyone who has spent time in Haiti knows, planting trees is...

A new idea is hatching at CODEP. Years ago, many will remember, we sponsored a significant effort to build fishponds and support the people of CODEP in raising fish for their own consumption — great protein — and to sell. There was huge merit in the project, many...

Reflections on Earth Day and Arbor Day: Trees, Dignity, and Renewal Today is Earth Day, and this year’s theme is “Our Power, Our Planet” — a reminder that environmental progress is sustained not only by governments or institutions, but by the daily actions of...

Something remarkable is taking shape at CODEP. How Did This Happen? Sometimes it just hits you. In the day-to-day frustrations of heat, difficult transportation, rising food costs, and more, I can find myself feeling almost stunned at all that is happening around me....

“Before the trees, there is the work.” Dear friends, Spring is coming. Not as a season marked on a calendar, but as something already taking shape across the hills of CODEP. It’s in the soil being prepared. In the seeds being planted. In the quiet, steady work...

Dear friends, Let me introduce you to Madame Enez. This week I watched her carefully roasting peanuts over an open flame. Slow. Patient. Intentional. The smell alone could carry you straight to a Haitian kitchen. She is making mamba — Haiti’s traditional peanut...

Dear friends, As we turn the page to a new year, we want to thank you for walking with us—through every season, storm, and seedling. 2025 was a year of deep challenges for Haiti. It was also a year of quiet victories. Because of you: Gardens fed families through...

Dear friends, As the year draws to a close and we reflect on all that 2025 has brought, we want to pause and say two simple words: Thank you. Because of you, seeds were planted. Gardens were grown. Fruit trees took root. And—most importantly—hope endured. This was not...

Dear friends, Hurricane Melissa has swept through Haiti and left deep scars behind. The Léogâne region, where our CODEP community lives and works, has been especially hard hit. * Flooded gardens * Fruit trees uprooted * Blossoms for the spring harvest torn away *...

There’s a quiet rhythm in the mountains above Cap Haitien — the sound of early footsteps, stirring leaves, and young minds opening.

SUPER SPINACH Hunger is rising across Haiti. But in the hills around the CODEP compound, something green is growing—and it’s feeding more than just stomachs. His name is Jamison, and he’s not tending a few plants by his doorstep. He has turned every sunlit patch of...

I’m home from my trip to Haiti, safe and, also, somewhat shattered. Everything about Haiti right now is unprecedented, confusing, and very hard. I spent a good amount of time with the CODEP folks. Despite everything, they are caring for seedlings in the nurseries,...

Folks, Last week I returned to Haiti for the first time since last August. Words almost fail me. I am safe, but it was an expensive trip. To avoid the gangs in Port-au-Prince, I flew directly into Cap-Haïtien and then on to Les Cayes. From there, it was a road trip to...

On May 1st Haiti takes the day off in order to celebrate Agriculture and Labor Day. Here at Haiti Reforestation Partnership, we feel a particularly special connection to this moment because it fits so closely with our work and hope for Haiti. The connection resonates...

It’s Arbor Day. In Haiti, an equivalent event happens on May 1 and features all sorts of agricultural themes. Usually Arbor Day is a time to plant a seedling. It will be exactly that across the US, and also in Haiti as the spring planting season is upon us. Thousands...

There are moments in any ambitious quest when it seems that that all the effort just might be – maybe, could it be possible – coming together. As we begin this new year, CODEP is having that sort of moment. After decades of dealing with seeds, nurseries, trees,...

For a couple years now, my family, friends, and the HRP Board have been quietly – and not so quietly – telling me to quit with the traveling back and forth to Haiti. Too dangerous. I have lived in Haiti for well over ten years and many people recognize me. (I sort of...