Talipa Farming is another way to supplement incomes

Our goal is to allow families on La Gonave to have jobs by creating their own.  The best way is to be their own business people.  By doing small scale farming, they will ensure their own food needs, but also some income as well.

Our hope is to have farming ideas that are not extremely labor intensive, so that one could also have a job at an employer.  We want the average income on La Gonave to eventually exceed that of the mainland.  We think having honeybee farms, Talipia farms, rabbit farms, and vetiver grass fields are easy but high income jobs.  Wouldn't it be great if tourism was big on the island?  One could work full-time in the service industry and part-time farming.

This fish is easy to raise, and produces a large sum of fry.  Given that there is already a very large operation on the mainland, we have already been in talks of creating farms on La Gonave.  These fish will aid in the food distribution that is needed on the island, and lower the island's dependence on food from Port-au-Prince.  Creating industries in Talipa, honey, and rabbit meat will be part of the food recovery program that is needed.  Couple this with Moringa Tree production, and the edible grasses that we are planting, and the food issues on La Gonave will look different.

Go Gonave!