About Bridges Farms
On the Horizon
Haiti is a country with a year-round growing season and hard working industrious people. Bridges Farms is blessed with a large acreage of land that is flat to rolling, crossed by rivers, bounded on three sides by mountains and soil that grow almost anything. Pigeon Peas is a food that Haitians love and Bridges Farms has a contract to grow hundreds or thousands of acres. According to one major producer, the soil on this plateau is the best in the world for the growing of pigeon peas.
Bridges is now growing a large crop of pigeon peas which will be ready to harvest in early 2003. The Board of Directors and Board of Advisors are excited about the 2002 crops and are making sure Bridges is funded sufficiently to plant five times as much pigeon peas in 2003. Bridges is also growing cassava, peanuts, okra, onions, tomatoes, sorghum, beets and lettuce, to name a few. Bridges has a contract to produce cassava cakes but must first raise the funds to build a modest factory to actually prepare the cassava cakes. The local market for Bridges Farms production is very large. Bridges is looking for export opportunities and asks viewers of this site to contact Bridges if those viewers have a need for a certain crop or value added product that could be produced by the people of St. Michel.
Latest News
Bridges receives a new airstrip thanks to two weeks of grader work by Gayle Mollincomp, former state legislator from Kansas. The old airstrip of 75 x 2000 feet is now 100 by 3000 feet.
A fully reconditioned Failing 1500 drilling rig mounted on an F-7000, 1977 Chevy 2-ton chassis is now on site and ready to begin producing wells of various sizes capable of allowing the farm to grow and service its water needs as well as those human water consumption needs of the outlying communities. Bridges is in need of a driller or drillers to come down and spend a week of months to these vitally necessary wells.
A new Standard satellite internet service with expanded dish capacity has been installed to insure reliable communication with the outside world for the first time in the history of Bridges Farms.
A 40 foot container of additional farming equipment is ready to be trucked to the from from Port of Cap Haitian.
One acre of drip tube donated by a Florida landscaping company has made a significant difference in vegetable yields. One more acre of tubing has been ordered and will be in place once the rains subside.