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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...