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Bountiful harvest provides funds for Haiti solar ovens

This summer longtime volunteers Dave and Renae Silbernagel of Moffit, North Dakota planted a two-acre garden which surrounds the Haiti Solar Oven Partners Moffit Workshop. Now it's time to to harvest the abundance! Dave and Renae are busy delivering veggies to United Methodist Churches in the Bismarck/Mandan area and to local marketplaces. 

The proceeds from the sales of the garden produce will help fund the purchase of the materials for the Haiti Solar Oven Workshop in Moffit, North Dakota. 

Dave Silbernagel volunteered his garage in Moffit to be the North Dakota shop, where volunteers come together, building an important part for solar stoves that are shipped to Haiti.

"We build the reflector, the upper part here and the lower part the plastic part is being built in Brookings, South Dakota, by the South Dakota shop," Dave Silbernagel said.

 

Delivering: Customers check out the first delivery of cucumbers, zucchini, apples and corn to Bismarck McCabe! Red and white potatoes will follow soon. Suggested donation is 80 cents per pound (you guess the weight!). Proceeds will purchase materials for the Haiti Solar Oven Workshop located at Moffit, ND. Submitted photo.

 

 

 

 

Garden: Produce grown on Dave & Renae Silbernagel’s property at Moffit helps raise money to buy aluminum. The building on the left with the green roof is the workshop where the polished aluminum solar oven reflectors are manufactured by HSOP volunteers. Submitted photo.

 

 

Little one:  Jiggy Trapp of West Fargo ND fell in love with Haiti's people through the Haiti Solar Oven Partners.  Submitted photo.

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