Guinea grass grown in Haitian nurseries.
We’re honored to have established the first grass nurseries in Haiti. Located in areas with nutrient-rich soils accessible to clean water and fertilizer, these grass nurseries require intense management in order to create higher flora growth rates. The grass grown in these nurseries grows more shots, stolons, and buds, multiplying quickly, similar to how western lawns grow.
Mature grass is then split, and taken from the nurseries to be planted on the eroded mountains. Some of the grass is left in the nursery so it continues to multiply. The larger grass from nurseries quickly establishes on steep slopes, much faster than grass seed.
Growing the grass in the nurseries and transplanting it to the mountains gives even more ownership to the community and the desire to look after the grass.
The project aims to establish hundreds of massive grass nurseries throughout Haiti.
Nursery, four months after planting.
The grass is cut several times and the excess is used as animal feed and as mulch to conserve moisture when planting on the mountain slopes.
Haiti has hundreds of acres of eroded land. It is our intent to turn all these eroded areas into landscapes of green vegetation.