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- Production Training
- Agriculture
- This Volunteer is shown at entrance to the tobacco warehouse (dark jacket) with tobacco growers and neighbors.He teaches better production methods in tobacco and cotton in Paraguay.
- Agency Photos
- Ant Control Project
- Agriculture
- This Volunteer is assigned to an Ant Control Project in Paraguay. Here he is shown (with beard) studying ant activity at ant hill with Americo Aranda, a Paraguayan technical assistant for the Instituto de Ciencias Bosicas, in Paraguay. These ants...
- Agency Photos
- Agriculture
- Agriculture
- A Volunteer working in agriculture.
- Agency Photos
- Testing Ecuadorean Peas
- Agriculture
- This Volunteer is serving in an agricultural program in Ambato, Ecuador, where she is testing seven varieties of Ecuadorean peas in affiliation with the Universidad Tecnica de Ambato.
- Agency Photos
- Working with the Ministry of Agriculture
- Agriculture
- This Peace Corps Volunteer works with the Ministry of Agriculture in agricultural extension.
- Agency Photos
- Peru Gardening Workshop
- Agriculture
- Deputy Director Ken Goodson running a gardening workshop with counterparts of Peru 1 Volunteers in Piura.
- Staff Photos
- My Peace Corps ID
- Old ID Card
- Volunteer Photos
- Agriculture in the Peace Corps
- Agriculture
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Return to Ecuador - A Journey of Discovery and Remembrance
- Volunteer Stories
- Tools of Sustainable Agriculture
- Agriculture
- On November 15th, 2007, I took this photo in my site of the president of the San Isidro farmers' committee, proudly displaying his committee's tools for no-till agriculture: a direct seeder ("sembradora") and roller crimper ("rollo cuchillo") for...
- Volunteer Photos
- An Underutilized Resource in the Community
- Agriculture
- I took this photo on October 18th, 2007 in my site in Paraguay. Neni is demonstrating a creative reuse of the abundant sour orange rinds available in the community: plantable seed-starting pots.
- Volunteer Photos
- Communal Plowing with Foot Plows
- Agriculture
- This photo shows men preparing a field for planting potatos using foot plows. This was in 1969 in the Community of Pampaconga, Peru, where I provided assistance with a Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture counterpart.
- Volunteer Photos
- Squash Stand
- Agriculture; Markets
- I took this photo on February 23rd, 2008 at a roadside farm stand in Paraguay. My wife was joking with the local boy in Guarani about which one is the tastiest.
- Volunteer Photos
- Growing Sponges
- Agriculture; Rural sites
- This photo from August 2006 shows me with the loofah sponges I grew for shade around the patio of my house in Paraguay.
- Volunteer Photos
- Sugarcane Oxcart
- Agriculture; Youth; Transportation; Rural sites
- This photo from August 24th, 2007 was taken in my site of Ruta'i, Torin, Caaguazu in Paraguay. It is of a boy loading an oxcart with sugarcane that will be used to feed other animals.
- Volunteer Photos
- Heifer Animal Recipient and Me
- Animals
- Taken in the Cochabamba, Bolivia area in late 1964, where I worked as field agent with Heifer Project and was charged with distribution of imported animals.
- Volunteer Photos
- Unloading Animal Shipment in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- Animals
- Animals were flown in from the USA to St. Cruz where they were acclimated, inoculated, and distributed in cooperation with a ten agency Comite Heifer to area residents. 1965
- Volunteer Photos
- Raising Rabbits
- Agriculture; Animals; Children; Nurses
- Peace Corps volunteer Eileen Sullivan of Cohasset, Mass., is raising rabbits and growing alfalfa in the small community of Tugualo, Ecuador. Previously, she spent one year as a volunteer nurse in the community of Latucunga, Ecuador, Here, Eileen...
- Agency Photos
- Manuela Condori shearing her sheep
- animals; host community friends
- The Aymara of the Bolivian Altiplano are often considered to be dour and unsmiling. Nothing further from the truth, as can be seen by Dona Manuela ready to have a try at shearing one of her sheep with hand shears. Instructing people in the local...
- Volunteer Photos
- Working with Cooperatives
- Agriculture; Artisans
- This Volunteer works with two cooperatives near the northern Colombian port city of Barranquilla. One is an agriculture marketing co-op, the other an artisan co-op where, as shown here, the Volunteer helps the women with designs and with marketing....
- Agency Photos