Fwd: Growing vegetables at high altitudes

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From: Bruce Campbell-Janz, MCC East Coast <EastCoast@mcc.org>
Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:24 AM
Subject: Growing vegetables at high altitudes
To: info@gehmanmennonitechurch.org <info@gehmanmennonitechurch.org>

Adapting technology for 13,000 feet above sea level. No Images? Click here       Donate     How it works: growing vegetables at high altitudes  Imagine trying to grow vegetables in a dry climate more than 13,000 feet above sea level where the atmosphere is so thin your crops die before they bear fruit. That's the case in El Alto, Bolivia, where one of our partners helps people build specialized greenhouses to keep the plants alive and to fight malnutrition. Learn more about how the greenhouses work!     Peach cobbler: a recipe for relief "Going once, going twice, sold to bidder number 14 for $700!" announces auctioneer Merle Diem through the microphone at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry, Ga. It's Saturday, September 15, and the Peach Cobbler Mennonite Relief Auction (PCMRA) has begun its 19th annual relief sale. But what sold for $700? Peach cobbler, of course! Read how peach cobbler is raising money for MCC's ministries and even find out the recipe for the sale's delicious cobbler.       Job openings Sewing and textile coordinator, Ephrata, PA Website developer, Akron, PA Communications administrative assistant, Akron, PA Domestic affairs intern | International affairs intern, Washington, D.C. SWAP job site coordinator | SWAP meals coordinator, Kentucky or West Virginia Representatives for Palestine Low German Mennonite journalist and publications coordinator, Bolivia Supervisory program assistant & exchange coordinator, Haiti   More openings       Events October 3-8: Borderlands Learning Tour (Mexico/AZ Border) October 5-6: Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale (Harrisonburg, VA) October 20: New York Mennonite Immigration Program 20th Anniversary Celebration (Brooklyn, NY) November 3: Piecing Together Traditions: African American and Amish Mennonite Quilting Fest (Ephrata, PA) November 7-17: Guatemala and Honduras Learning Tour December 10-14: Advanced Immigration Law Training (Akron, PA) March 1-13: Palestine and Israel Learning Tour April 9-13: Immigration Law Training (Akron, PA)         Find local events       Flooding in India After extreme monsoon rains in Kerala State in India, an estimated 500 people died and about 540,000 remain in camps and temporary accommodation.  MCC is responding to the flooding with local partner Gilgal Mission Trust. The response will support 500 households by providing tarps, food baskets, cooking utensils, cleaning and hygiene items. Donate today to support MCC's flood response in Kerala.    In Touch time machine When MCC started work in Bangladesh after a devastating cyclone in 1970, a major focus was appropriate technology. MCC workers experimented with designing or adapting simple, inexpensive technologies that farmers could easily afford and use. In this 1979 photo in Feni, Bangladesh, MCC workers Ali Mia (left) of Feni, and George Klassen of of Carman, Manitoba, experiment with a mechanical suction chamber attached to a cast-iron pump, one of many experiments that eventually led to the creation of the rower pump.       Donate   P.S. We want this newsletter to be as interesting and useful to you as possible. So always feel free to hit reply and tell us how we're doing and what you'd like to see in In Touch — a real person reads every reply!       MCC East Coast 900 East Howell Street, Philadelphia, PA 19149 Clicking unsubscribe will remove you from the In Touch newsletter mailing list. Send us a note at intouch@mcccanada.ca or reply to this email if you'd like to be removed from all MCC emails.    Like    Tweet    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe