Re: *Use of the Vetiver plant in Haiti*


Annette wrote:
> cuttings can be paid for by either cash or food-for-work
> (e.g., rice, beans, cooking oil).

"Food-for-work" is another name for slavery.
Pay people cash and let them buy their food!
A vetiver planting project is not a peristyle
membership, where people gather by choice,
cook together, work together and eat together.

"Food-for-work" depresses local economies,
because the small marketers lose customers
when people get "food-for-work" instead of
being paid cash which they then use to buy
food. "Food-for-work" is NO GOOD.

> It's being cut so rapidly in the Jacmel area,
> > we can hardly find enough to thatch the roof of our
> > traditionally-built houses for the lwa.
>
> The importance of the re-planting of vetiver (in my opinion) shoud be to
> the benefit of the earth, (erosion/goat feeding, etc.,) all issues
> defined in the subject.

When we harvest vetiver we cut it and it grows
right back up again, we don't uproot it.

Peace and love,

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