{"id":296,"date":"2010-02-26T18:54:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-30T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T20:35:07","slug":"nicaragua-delegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2010\/02\/26\/nicaragua-delegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua delegation witnesses fair trade and sustainable development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/presbyterian.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b5a569e201310f3f8c25970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b5a569e201310f3f8c25970c \" title=\"Nica\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/6a00d83451b5a569e201310f3f8c25970c-800wi\" alt=\"Nica\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">&#8220;Picture this: a tree full of a dozen chickens and roosters in branches laden with oranges against a brilliant star lit sky. This tree stood in the barnyard of a farm where a group of five women<br \/>\nfrom the Presbyterian Church (USA) and Equal Exchange delegation spent<br \/>\ntwo nights this past January.\u00a0 It was one of our first sights at Luis<br \/>\nand Elsa Castillo\u2019s farm in Boaco, Nicaragua; and for me it\u2019s an image<br \/>\nthat captures the beauty and tranquility that we found there.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/smallfarmersbigchange.coop\/2010\/02\/22\/delegation-to-nicaragua-january-2010\/#more-2874\">Read Susan Sklar&#8217;s reflections<\/a> from this trip to Nicaragua that Melanie Hardison, of PHP&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pcusa.org\/enough\">Enough for Everyone<\/a> program, helped lead.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Picture this: a tree full of a dozen chickens and roosters in branches laden with oranges against a brilliant star lit sky. This tree stood in the barnyard of a farm where a group of five women from the Presbyterian Church (USA) and Equal Exchange delegation spent two nights this past January.  It was one of our first sights at Luis and Elsa Castillo\u2019s farm in Boaco, Nicaragua; and for me it\u2019s an image that captures the beauty and tranquility that we found there.&#8221;\r\n\r\nRead Susan Sklar&#8217;s reflections from this trip to Nicaragua that Melanie Hardison, of PHP&#8217;s Enough for Everyone, helped lead.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3880],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v23.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nicaragua delegation witnesses fair trade and sustainable development - Food and Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2010\/02\/26\/nicaragua-delegation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nicaragua delegation witnesses fair trade and sustainable development\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;Picture this: a tree full of a dozen chickens and roosters in branches laden with oranges against a brilliant star lit sky. 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