JACMEL & SAINT-MICHEL DE L'ATTALAYE, HAITI
In 2016, we had the privilege of starting a farm in Haiti, in partnership with Harvest Craft. After months of researching locations and talking to the community, we learned a few things - Chickens were more valuable than fish at the local market, the farmers already knew how to take care of chickens, and they really wanted a chicken farm! I Dream of Fish is excited to support this community in their efforts to be sustainable and feed their own community. Although it isn't what we originally set out to do, we are happy to say that this farm is now producing 3500 eggs per week with over 500 chickens!!! (As a side note, isn't this the coolest looking chicken coop? It looks like it came straight out of Dwell magazine.) Our most recent report in 2020 shows the farm now producing over 10,000 eggs per week for the local community and the local market. This project has since been successfully handed over to the local community to continue to run it.
Our second project in Saint-Michel De l’Attalaye has 3,000 broilers - hens for meat. The farm employs 4 techinicians and 14 at-risk youth part time employees. The meat is sold to local hotels and restaurants. An additional chicken breeding facility was developed with full solar system, off-the-grid. This project has since been successfully handed over to a Haitian run non-profit, Agrinotech, and it continues to sell and breed new hens in a sustainable cycle. Thousands of hens are sold for food, and also distributed to local farmers to "seed" their own small-scale chicken farms on a quarterly basis.
Our second project in Saint-Michel De l’Attalaye has 3,000 broilers - hens for meat. The farm employs 4 techinicians and 14 at-risk youth part time employees. The meat is sold to local hotels and restaurants. An additional chicken breeding facility was developed with full solar system, off-the-grid. This project has since been successfully handed over to a Haitian run non-profit, Agrinotech, and it continues to sell and breed new hens in a sustainable cycle. Thousands of hens are sold for food, and also distributed to local farmers to "seed" their own small-scale chicken farms on a quarterly basis.