Hola from Zapote!
This week we all feel like we made a lot of headway on the project. We dug holes around the perimeter of the yard (earning muchos blisters in the process ) to plant the posts for the fence. In the middle of the yard we leveled out a rectangular piece of land, where we will soon build a caseta for the chickens-essentially a large coop for the chickens to feed in and lay eggs, making the egg collection extremely effective for the families. Right now the families collect eggs as if it were an Easter egg hunt, often finding them in unexpected spots-twice this week we found our breakfast in Steve’s bed! The fence posts for the yard were sculpted straight from trees by Don Bernardo, the grandfather of the community, with his chainsaw. Our most intensive task this week was carrying the approximately 40-50 lb, 15 ft fence posts through the woods for about half a mile. Navigating the steep mountain paths with a slab of wood on your shoulder was a type of cross fit that people would pay good money to do! Fortunately it paid off-we planted the fence poles in the ground and successfully put up the chain link fence.
We were able to meet a few more community members this week as well-Steve and Brad’s host mom had been in the hospital for the past month but returned on Friday along with their grandmother and a few aunts. On Friday we also met up with another Nourish group working with AVODEC in San Rafael building a pig farm. They came to help us with our project for the weekend, and today we’re touring a coffee plantation in Jinotega with Victorino!

Happy 4th of July from Nica, Nourish love to everyone back home!