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- Cloud Chasers 2026 – Newsletter 1
We are a team of 6 engineering students working on a project exploring whether agroforestry can offer a sustainable alternative to conventional agriculture in Guatemala’s cloud forests. To do this, we are improving existing hydrological monitoring setups in the cloud forest and building new measurement stations in agricultural and agroforestry plots. - Peach Pie Recipe
If you’re following us on social media, you saw the beautiful peach harvest we had this year! The trees were planted four years ago during WALC of 2022, and this year was our first harvest from these trees. We enjoyed the peaches fresh, frozen, in jam, and also in pie! Included below is Tara’s peach… Read more: Peach Pie Recipe - Sisterhood Found: America’s Appalachia & the Mayan Heartland
By Nancy Stranahan, Director, Arc of Appalachia Here is a short story of how two far-flung land preservation and education nonprofits – one in southern Ohio and one in Guatemala – found each other across the miles. We began the Arc of Appalachia back in 1995 as a wildlands preservation organization with zero acres to… Read more: Sisterhood Found: America’s Appalachia & the Mayan Heartland - A Volunteer’s Experience of WALC
As I lurched over the bumps in the dirt road in the back of the tuktuk, I glanced around eagerly, looking for anything I might recognize. The mountain, wispy clouds stretched over the thick foliage, which rose over the farm fields to the right of the road looked familiar, but once we’d passed through the… Read more: A Volunteer’s Experience of WALC - Pumpkin Soup Recipe
IYKYK. The food at CCFC is hardy and fresh. The following recipe serves 12. It is cut down from Tara’s recipe that originally serves 144! So play with the seasonings.This year the gardens produced 8 full pick-up bed’s worth of pumpkin. Ingredients:1.5 Liters of pumpkin – chopped into bite sized pieces and boiled till almost… Read more: Pumpkin Soup Recipe