Livrezon

Kreyol for "distribution/delivery," this is what we call the weeks of the year when all the trees our committees have been growing go out to make their way in the big world. Each nursery picks a day within these weeks to distribute, and MCC staff divides and covers each site.

This is how it works: the nursery committee estimates how many people from the community will come, and we divide up the trees among those people. Usually each person gets around 100 trees. If people want a specific species of tree or a specific quantity, they buy them. We also sell some of our trees to other NGOs that have projects nearby - this year we have a huge order to fill, so at every livrezon we separate the trees for this order and truck them away (well, in some cases after we carry them out over mountain and river).

Each livrezon starts at 5am, which mean an early day for everyone. Some nurseries are a 15-minute drive away, while others are a 30-minute drive plus a 30-minute hike and better yet, some are a 30-minute drive with a 2-hour hike which means waking up at the very unhealthy hour of 2:15am to leave the office at 2:30 to be at the trailhead by 3am to hopefully be at the nursery by 5am. Not much sleep this week.

Well, here are some photos of livrezon in a place called Chanpyon - it's about an hour hike after a 20-minute drive. Enjoy! More pictures to come.

Inside the nursery as the trees are on their way to the public.

A few ladies leaving with their new trees.

Every camera finds a ham.

Loading up buckets and baskets with seedlings.