World Hunger Relief will help CKBU start its farm, after helping Haiti cultivate more rice paddies.

Most Campus Kitchen farms and gardens get direction from master gardeners and local farms in their communities. Some receive expert advice from more prominent farming voices: the operators of the World Hunger Relief farm.

The Campus Kitchen at Baylor University has a unique advantage: it’s situated in Waco, Texas, the same location as the World Hunger Relief farm.

As a partner of World Hunger Relief, a sustainable agriculture training farm in Texas, and a student-led hunger relief organization, the Campus Kitchen will receive direction and support from the Hunger Farm’s creators as it begins its own Farm Project. In addition, the Hunger Farm helps with programming for CKBU’s community partners.

The Hunger Farm’s most recent effort could give CKBU a more specialized farming skill. The farm has received media attention recently for its partnership with Cornell University and a Madagascar rice specialist to improve the rice farming process in Haiti, and in turn provide international hunger relief to a country looking for economic empowerment beyond disaster.

Neil Miller of World Hunger Relief will work with the rice specialist to teach farmers the intensification-growing method in hopes that Haiti will discover a food production method sustainable enough to break free of its dependency on outside help.

The Waco, Texas climate has a lot of similarities to Haiti’s climate, according to Miller, who said Haiti gets a little more rain. The intensified system would limit the use of water by flooding fields every three to four days instead of keeping them continually flooded.

Specialized knowledge like these water conservation methods might just be the thing CKBU needs to start up its farm project. And who knows? Before long, CKBU could have its own rice paddy.

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