Creole Gardens

In the heart of Lagonav Island, where drought and isolation challenge daily life, Creole Gardens is more than a classroom activity—it’s a path to resilience. Students plant seeds. Families harvest food. Villages build strength from the ground up.

Hungry children cannot learn. Families without predictable food security cannot invest in education or community. In rural Haiti, farming means survival—but often with depleted soils, no irrigation, and few resources. At MCLC, gardening is woven into the fabric of schooling because growing food and learning are inseparable.

School and home gardens teach young people and their families that the land can provide, the future can be different—and their lives can be shaped by hope, not just circumstance.

• School Gardens & Irrigation: Students and teachers cultivate garden beds, compost, build rain-water catchment systems and tend vegetable plots that supply breakfast meals and outdoor classrooms. 

• Home Garden Support: Families receive seeds, soil amendments, tools, and training—so that what begins at school extends into every household and becomes a source of food, income, and dignity.

• Agricultural Mentoring: Garden lessons aren’t just for students. They ripple through villages via community workshops, youth-led gardening clubs, and inter-school learning networks, so families can replicate what works.

• Linking Learning & Livelihoods: Garden plots are literally living laboratories—where math, science, nutrition, ecology and community responsibility merge. Students learn on the land for life beyond the classroom.