Help Us Plant Yéyé's Second Harvest

Restoring community water access, investing in agriculture, and strengthening local autonomy in Anse d'Hainault, Haiti.

My grandmother turns 99 this year.

For 16 summers, her home in Anse d'Hainault was the place that held people. Long before anyone used terms like "community care" or "third spaces," her door was always open — coffee, conversation, connection, no questions asked. People came to her to feel held before continuing on with their day.

Her name is Yéyé. And this initiative is, in every way, a continuation of what she built.

Who I Am

I am Marjorie — born and raised in Haiti, a daughter of Anse d'Hainault, a licensed therapist, a social entrepreneur, and a Haitian optimist through and through. I migrated to the United States at 17, carrying everything that 16 summers in southern Haiti had given me.

Throughout every return trip to the land, I held one belief: that purpose was right here in Dossou. As a social worker, I learned to imagine beyond structural barriers, to see what could be, not just what is. What I kept seeing was this: agriculture as an entry point to mental health. Land as a container for healing. Community is the infrastructure we keep overlooking.

Yéyé's Second Harvest is what happens when you stop waiting for the change and start building it.

What We Are Building

The land in Anse d'Hainault grows coffee and cacao. For generations, it fed families, sustained communities, and carried knowledge that what you plant today will feed someone tomorrow.

We are beginning with small batches — cacao and coffee experiments sourced directly from the land, processed with care, and brought to people who want to know where their goods come from and whose hands grew them.

In time, we will add cacao-based skincare, seasonal goods from the land, and community infrastructure investments — water restoration, environmental sanitation, and fair wages for every farmer and artisan whose labor makes this possible.

This is not an extraction. This is cultivation.

Your contribution will fund:

— Land reassessment and legal updates (raffraichissement lizyè) — Soil and tree diagnostic evaluations — Community agricultural training and task force development — Irrigation, seeds, and equipment — Preparing the land for the first seasonal crops — Paying local workers fairly — Restoring community water pumps in Mandou

Where We Are

In August 2026, the arpentage begins — the official land assessment that maps what we have, what needs restoration, and what is ready to grow. This summer, I return to Haiti to begin the first cacao and coffee experiments directly on the land.

We are learning. We are planting. We are building something that does not exist yet but is becoming real with every step.

This is the moment to get in early.

How You Can Be Part of This

Every contribution plants something real. Here is what your support makes possible:

$25 — Seed Your name joins the founding harvest list. You'll receive seasonal updates directly from the land throughout the first season.

$50 — Root Everything above, plus a digital postcard from Haiti during the first season and a story from Yéyé herself — her words, her memory, her relationship to the land that started all of this.

$100 — Branch Everything above, plus a handwritten note from Marjorie — because some things still deserve to arrive by hand.

☕ $300 — First Harvest Everything above, plus the first small bag of coffee or cacao grown directly from the land in Anse d'Hainault — harvested, processed, and delivered to you by July 2027. This is the harvest you helped plant.

$500 — Steward Everything above, plus the inaugural Yéyé's Second Harvest Almanac — a Haiti-made collection of stories about the land, the seasons, and the people who have tended it across generations. This is not a calendar. It is a record of what the land remembers. Delivered by July 2027. Your name lives permanently on the YSH Co founding supporters page.

$1,000+ — Partner of the Land Everything above, plus a signed photo of Yéyé and a direct conversation with Marjorie about the vision, the land, and your role in what comes next.

The Long Vision

In the first year, we begin distributing small batches and restoring community water access in Mandou. In the years ahead, cacao and coffee export, environmental reinforcement to protect the roads from ocean erosion, and the creation of 250 sustainable toilets within the community.

None of us ever truly starts from scratch. Every harvest begins from what came before.

If this resonates with you, give what you can. If you can't give, share it with someone who might. And if you know an organization or supporter aligned with this work, connect us.

The land is ready. The arpentage begins in August. This is the season.

Thank you for helping us plant this first harvest.

With deep gratitude,

Marjorie