News Articles
The Cycle of Life Farm System was featured on the front page of the Newspaper
in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico!
In July of 2009 John Musser and some members of his team traveled to Mexico to visit the installation site of the Cycle of Life Farm System at Mama Lupita’s Orphanage in Nuevo Laredo. Just one day after arriving, the local members of the press came to the site to meet them. The story made front page headline news in the local newspaper! A couple of days after meeting with the press, the team was invited to meet with the leading government officials of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. What was supposed to be a short meeting ended up lasting a few hours. Their goal was to be granted permission to bring supplies into Mexico without cost or harassment. The government decided to help with the orphanage project and also asked Aquaponics and Earth Sustainable Living if we would help the government with a food program after finishing the work at Mama Lupita’s. Thousands in that area are starving and urgently need help. That area has no agriculture; when the swine flu epidemic hit, thousands would have died if it had lasted just one month longer…
This area is not only home to native Mexicans, but also to many others who are from other nations, trying to get through Mexico to the U.S. Most people do not realize that border towns are some of the poorest in Mexico because they are filled with immigrants who cannot get over the U.S. border and have no place to live or work. In fact, Mama Lupita sometimes feeds these people with leftoversor food that she is ready to throw out, just to keep them alive. Many of these people live in pallet houses. Now the government is stepping in to help and AESL gets to be a part of it.
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The Dallas Korean Newspaper interviewed John Musser about the
Cycle of Life Farm System, reaching over 100,000 Koreans in the Dallas area!
In July 2009, a just before John Musser and his team left for Mexico (see above), a news reporter from a Dallas-area Korean Newspaper called and asked if he could interview Mr. Musser about the self-sustaining Cycle of Life farm. Although he was extremely busy preparing for the Mexico trip, John Musser allowed the reporter and his wife and daughters to come and visit the AESL farm for the interview. After the interview, he left for Mexico.
While Mr. Musser and the team were away, several calls came in daily from Koreans who had read about the system in the newspaper and wanted to come and visit it for themselves! AESL learned that there are over 100,000 Koreans in the Dallas area.
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Back in the Nuevo Laredo Newspaper!
A team from Aquaponics and Earth recently went down to continue the work at casa Hogar Elim, and again the story was published in the local newspaper, taking the entire front page of the Community Section! The pictures in the article show the raised bed gardens which have now been set on gravel for better drainage, and the bio-barrels in the tanks. What is not shown is the underground overflow storage system that was installed on this latest trip.