Eating Pasture Raised Organic Pork Helps Hurricane Stan Relief Effort

Don’t remember Hurricane Stan? It’s not surprising if you don’t remember or never heard of it in the first place, but even though news of Stan and its aftermath only registered a minor blip on the news radar, its effects are still making life miserable for poor communities in El Salvador and Guatemala. Hurricane Stan didn’t get much press because it struck in between the higher profile disasters of Hurricane Katrina and the horrific earthquake in Pakistan and Kashmir. Stan swept across the Yucatan peninsula and then hit Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains. In El Salvador, flooding and landslides following the rain left some communities with roads blocked by mudslides and over half their staple crop of beans destroyed.

The Building on Biodiversity Project (BOB) is teaming up with its partner organization in El Salvador, the Balsam Association to aid communities that have lost crops and jobs to the flooding and mudslides caused by Hurricane Stan in early October. As part of its fundraising effort, BOB is hosting an online auction of First Nature Farms pasture-raised pork, all proceeds from the auction will go to aiding families in El Salvador, many of whom have lost over half of the bean crop planted in August of this year. In effect, Jerry Kitt of First Nature Farms is aiding the recovery effort by trading his delicious pasture raised pork for the lost beans .

If you live in Alberta or British Columbia’s Lower Mainland you can participate in this on-line auction of pasture raised organic pork cut to your specifications. And as an added bonus to the delicious pork you’ll be enjoying, you’ll be helping the Balsam Association in their effort to replace the bean crop that was wiped out by Hurricane Stan.

You can learn all about the fundraising effort and participate in the online auction at the following web pages:
• Relief Aid
• Pork for Beans