This week on Herbal Radio, host Lucretia VanDyke is joined by Sidney-Max Eitenne from Grown in Haiti. Since 2014, Grown in Haiti has planted and distributed over 25,000 trees, restored degraded soil, and shared regenerative knowledge across rural Haiti.
Join us as the explore:
🥭 Gathering the community to regenerate the soil
🥭 Listening and learning from the patience of Elders
🥭 How plant relationships teach us about human relationships
🥭 Food security by having sovereignty over the seeds grown
🥭 Avoiding plant trends and turning to the plants around you
*EPISODE RESOURCES:*
🌿 Grown In Haiti Website: https://growninhaiti.org
🌿 Grown in Haiti Social Media: Instagram https://instagram.com/growninhaiti and Facebook https://facebook.com/growninhaiti
🌿 Watch Grown in Haiti on YouTube: @GrownInHaiti and TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@growninhaiti
🌿 Donate to Grown in Haiti: https://growninhaiti.org/donate
🌿 Read Grown in Haiti’s article in Vogue: https://www.vogue.com/article/growth-in-haiti-environmental-group-food-security-regenerative-practices
🌱 Find Lucretia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucretia.vandyke
🌱 Lucretia’s website: https://www.lucretiavandyke.com
🌱 Lucretia’s Book, African American Herbalism: https://mountainroseherbs.com/african-american-herbalism
*Sidney-Max Etienne* is the founder and executive director of Grown in Haiti, a Haitian-led regenerative agriculture nonprofit in Cap Rouge, on Haiti’s southern peninsula. Grown in Haiti now runs a community nursery, a farmer network called AgriNatif, and water catchment holding close to 50,000 gallons. His practice is syntropic agroforestry, planting in dense succession so that soil and canopy build together. Much of what grows in Cap Rouge was never planted by anyone.
He teaches a free syntropic farming course through the Earthed platform and spoke as a finalist at the Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin. He also serves as vice president of the Caribbean Agroecology Institute. In 2026, he completed research through the Caribbean Institute in Gender and Development at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, on women’s socio-economic contributions to Haiti’s agricultural sector.
*Lucretia VanDyke* began her herbalism journey as a little girl mixing herbs, clays, and muds on her grandparents’ farm. Today, Lucretia VanDyke has been in the herbal industry for over 20 years. As a holistic educator, speaker, herbalist, ceremonialist, spiritual light coach, intuitive energetic & reiki practitioner, diviner, storyteller, artist, and world traveler, Lucretia has accumulated over 3000 hours of training. She has studied with indigenous healers and some of the greatest minds of our time. Lucretia has been a holistic esthetician & healing arts practitioner for over a decade focusing on integrating indigenous healing rituals, plant spirit medicine, and meditation into modern-day practice. Lucretia brings her vivacious spirit and message of self-love in her work to inspire others to embrace their unique beauty and purpose. She is currently collecting stories throughout the south while working on expanding her BIPOC community healing arts and herbal education program.
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