The women who benefit from the program have organized themselves to support one another and obtain better results in vegetable production. The Sowing Opportunities project has awakened interest in other women in the community, who are eager to learn and have their own garden at home. In January 2025, we plan to expand the greenhouse […]

Take a look at our annual report/year in review in video: As we look towards the future for the year ahead, we are grateful for your generous donations that have allowed this project to come to this point and to flourish. In January, our team will return to the region and I will report on […]

Tuesday, December 24 Aside from going to church, Christmas is a day like any other in the villages. They don’t have the means for a special feast, so it is not their tradition. In the U.S., we continue our efforts to help the people in this remote region to have sustainable food security. And, this is thanks to you.   […]

December 19, 2024 Each year the families in each of the three villages that we have worked with (in the years 2022, 2023, and 2024) receive seedlings at the beginning, middle and end of the year. Some of the families, through their own innovation, have applied the skills learned from Sowing Opportunities’ expert agricultural engineer, […]

On November 24, 2024, Fern and Ginny Remedi-Brown were invited to share about Sowing Opportunities at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church’s Mission Moment, during their Sunday Worship Service.  The video and what we talked about are below: My name is Fern Remedi-Brown.  My wife, Ginny, and I live in Malden.  We formed the nonprofit Sowing Opportunities […]

María Elena T’iül Choc gives a cup of macuy soup in Sisbilhá November 26, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving Dear friends and family, The mostly women-led indigenous communities in the Eastern Highlands of Guatemala live a subsistence life.   Since 2022, Sowing Opportunities has been providing sustainable greenhouse agriculture so that, rather than being hungry, they are able to […]

Nearly three years ago, Sowing Opportunities started the greenhouse project in the region of Eastern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala where there are few resources.  When we began aiding the village of Chajmaic, Guatemala in 2017, we met with the municipal mayor and in 2018 Chajmaic received a water pump system.  We delivered groceries during the pandemic […]

Give to the Sowing Opportunities, Inc. via the Gifts for Good Upper Cape Cod Alternative Gift Market. An “Alternative Gift” is a donation to a worthy cause made in honor of family member or friend. The market will be held online from November 10-17 at www.alternativegiftmarketcapecod.org, and in person at Saint Barnabas’s Church at 91 […]

Since October 2021, Indigenous Peoples Day has been a U.S. holiday.  We at Sowing Opportunities are proud to say that we celebrate the indigenous peoples every day in the remote villages in the region of Eastern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. To raise funds for our greenhouse projects, we are partnering with A Thread of Hope Guatemala […]

Dear family and friends, The Jewish High Holy Days season begins this year on Saturday evening, September 28 with a service called S’lichot, asking for forgiveness from God. The evening of October 2, 2024 begins the Jewish New Year – in Hebrew, Rosh HaShanah. As we turn at this time to creating things anew, we at Sowing Opportunities turn […]

The family of Magdalena Paiz is one of the best workers in the community. As you can see, she understood what she was taught by Sowing Opportunities and is putting into practice the methodology with which she has improved her family’s diet and she sells the surplus with which she obtains economic benefit…!!! We are […]

The journey is long and risky for our team to travel to the remote, indigenous region where Sowing Opportunities has its service area in Eastern Alta Verapaz. Two weeks ago the team visited the villages of Chajmaic, Salaguna, and Sisbilhá, to bring additional seedlings and supplies (fertilizer, insecticide) to the three villages where we are working […]