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- Working The Land With My Host Parents
- Agriculture; Gardens; Host families
- On the morning of June 18th, 2011, at 4:00am in Moldova, my host father knocks on the door to my room. I open the door, and am told "today we are going to work the land my son!" I was tired, yet excited. We then proceeded to walk about two miles to...
- Volunteer Photos
- Women Planting Yams
- Environment; Gardens
- In this photo the wives of FES staff and work crew helped to plant yams in ITTA plot. Yams are one of the staple foods in the Solomon Islanders' diet. Yams are roasted over an open fire, baked in the traditional stone oven, cooked in pot with...
- Volunteer Photos
- Walk in the Bush
- Gardens; Host families; Children
- My small brother and I going on a short walk through the bush to pick some mangoes for a snack. In Vanuatu, individual family gardens are the primary source of food for each families.
- Volunteer Photos
- Tire in an Orchard
- Gardens
- This tire was for some reason laying in the middle of a beautiful lemon tree orchard.
- Volunteer Photos
- Stakhanov Garden
- Host community friends; Pets; Children; Gardens
- This young lady held our dog for a portrait in the garden outside my home in Ukraine. She was a good friend of my host-family. Every year the garden was full of flowers and vegetables.
- Volunteer Photos
- Spraying the Orchards
- Gardens; Secondary Projects
- This photo was in the gardens outside Kerend, Iran, Summer 1970. Ernie has shown local farmers how to spray and now they are doing it.
- Volunteer Photos
- San Juan Reforestation Group
- Gardens
- Photo taken in June 2008, San Juan de Pequeni, Chagres National Park, Rep. of Panama. Response Volunteer, Jacob Slusser seen with OCASP reforestation group and their first native tree seedlings in a small tree nursery. The saplings were to...
- Volunteer Photos
- Reberao, Brazil
- Children; Nutrition; Gardens
- On a Fazenda de Cana (sugar cane planataion) 40 KM west of Recife, Brazil, I spent all of 1970 in a nutrition education program. This photo was taken of me (age 23) with 18 school children in the school garden, built by the children, eaten by the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Providing Food Security One Permagarden at a Time
- HIV/AIDS; Gardens
- This photo was taken at the district hospital's community garden in Namibia where I have been assisting community members with learning permagardening techniques after receiving training as part of my Peace Corps service. This picture is of a group...
- Volunteer Photos
- Preparing The Land for Planting
- HIV/AIDS; Gardens
- These women are some of the vulnerable women being given training in urban gardening to help them improve their nutrition and teach them to raise their own gardens. Many of these women are HIV positive. This photo was taken in Ethiopia in the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Planting a Garden in the Village
- Gardens
- Taken in 1990. Here I am planting a garden in my backyard with a village girl, Lois (who is a grown woman now). With the dry desert climate of the island of Antigua, West Indies, this turned out to be a challenging project and ultimately did not...
- Volunteer Photos
- Picking Cherries
- Host families; gardens
- This photo was taken in my host family's garden in Moldova, where I helped my host sister pick cherries this summer. My petite host sister climbed far up into the tree to reach the cherries still left at the very top, and then tossed them down,...
- Volunteer Photos
- Permagardening in Namibia
- HIV/AIDS; Gardens
- This group of employees from the district hospital in Namibia had just finished planting seeds in their plot at the hospital's community garden. The women are part of an HIV support group at the hospital that I had the pleasure of teaching...
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Volunteer (November 1969)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (November 1969).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (Summer 1971)
- Newsletters--1970s
- Full text of the special tenth anniversary issue of the Peace Corps Volunteer (Summer 1971).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (January 1963)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Volume 1, Number 3 of the Peace Corps Volunteer.
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (January 1963)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol.1, No.3 of the Peace Corps Volunteer (January 1963)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (October 1963)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol.1, No.12 of the Peace Corps Volunteer (October 1963)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (December 1963)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol.2, No.2 of the Peace Corps Volunteer (December 1963)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (February 1964)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol.2 No.4 of the Peace Corps Volunteer (February 1964)
- Newsletters