From the ground, up.
feeding kids and families
DuSable Farms brings the best of nature into the tummies of the hungry. Kids love our hearty breadfruit porridge during school lunches and mothers appreciate the simplicity of feeding a family quickly and on a budget. As the farms of the Grand'Anse return to their pre-Hurricane Matthew yields, the world will soon know about the great health and nutritional powers of moringa.
funding shelf-stable products
DuSable Farms will function as a funnel for impact investors who see agricultural produce processing as a business solution to some of the societal problems in the Grand'Anse. DSF will start small by focusing on products from breadfruit and moringa.
financing konbit co-ops
Konbit is the Haitian term for farmers making self-sacrifices for the greater good of all. A co-op of 250+ farms call Fermes DuSable will be principal stakeholder in DuSable Farms. Fermes DuSable Farmers will work in tandem with local agronomists and non-profits like Zanmi Sasye and Trees that Feed Foundation to intercrop their farms and modernize with the latest agro-forestry and sustainability practices; benefitting from new nurseries and charitable endeavors underway in Jeremie.
creating lasting professions
Farming is tough and farmers are proud of what they can yield from their toil of the land. DuSable Farms creates a marketplaces for farmers to find buyers for their organic, natural, nutritious food.
Product Focus
DuSable Farms and Fermes DuSable will focus on the value-added processing and marketing of two plants that grow abundantly in Grand’Anse province; breadfruit and moringa oleifera; specifically converting raw breadfruit into breadfruit flour and converting raw moringa oleifera seed-pods into moringa oil.
In 1787, William Bligh was appointed Captain of the HMS Bounty and instructed by the Royal Crown to transport over 1,000 breadfruit trees from Tahiti to the Caribbean to be used as a high-energy, nutritious food source for British slaves. Today the shackles are broken, but the breadfruit is still known locally as Veritab Souve Pep La - the Savior of the People.
The Moringa plant is native to Northern India, where it was first described around 2000 BC as a medicinal herb. It is also known as The Miracle Tree for its innumerable uses for nutrition and health. Today, Moringa is cultivated around the world, primarily in poorer regions with tropical climates where the many uses for Moringa are needed most—places like Ethiopia, Haiti, Ghana, Honduras, Indonesia and Uganda.
