Elan Amadis, ‘The Bamboo Guy,’ believes farming can help reclaim the land in Haiti’s northeast

Elan Amadis, ‘The Bamboo Guy,’ believes farming can help reclaim the land in Haiti’s northeast

CAP-HAÏTIEN — Elan Amadis can still feel the cold water his father used to throw on him in bed when he refused to wake up at 3:00 a.m. to help out on the coffee plantation during the early 1990s in Ennery, a commune about 18 miles north of Gonaïves in the Artibonite Department.After Amadis finally woke up, he, his father, and about 15 other farmers would hike up a mountain in the dark to get to the farm. Amadis hated it. Often, once he reached t…