Satisfied Wages for Nicaragua

 Red beans, growing in El Naranjo, Nicaragua Ever since I can remember I was working with my grandfather in his garden. When I was a kid he would pick me up, looking for "day laborers," as he would joke. My cousins and I would go and work the acre he had at his cousins house in Grant, Michigan. We planted and harvested tomatoes, corn, onions, various chili plants, zucchini, green beans, etc. The green beans, Blue Lake bush beans, were always the most work, and we were able to harvest two crop during the summertime. As my grandpa aged, his gardens were smaller. Eventually he moved the garden to my backyard after I bought a house. Every Memorial Day we would till the soil and plant vegetables, and of course we had three rows of green beans. We would spend the summers sharing stories and jokes as we worked the garden. I always laughed, no matter how many times I heard the stories, because something new would be shared about his life and my great grandparents.  When Jari and I le...

 Darwin is now back in his hometown of Jinotega and is now working with us full time. His internship went well in Jinotepe with the ministy 'La Semilla." It went well enough he was offered a job and to work with us in starting up a local branch of the ministry in Jinotega!  We praise God for this new growth in our ministry and that we will continue to have a blessed relationship with Darwin in his work with us.  This means a new agreement was signed between us and La Semilla Minisries. We have had an ongoing relationship with this ministry since 2017. Their agronomists, Franklin and Ariel, were in our first classes of Good Sense in the Nehemiah Center. Franklin has become a facilitator of personal finances for the ministry and they have added it to the seminars for farmers they work with. This is a story of Franklin's work with the farmers he mentors.  Satisfied Wages is collaborating with La Semilla to gain community access and grow the Churches influence in the co...