Sidney-Max Etienne represented Grown in Haiti as a Falling Walls Engage finalist at the 2025 Science Summit in Berlin. He shared the community-led regenerative work in Cap Rouge with an international audience.

This Food & Wine and Bon Appétit Best Cookbook of 2024, written by Emmy Award-winning documentarian and food historian Von Diaz, travels across the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Ocean islands to document ancestral cooking techniques rooted in resistance, persistence, and ecological wisdom. Sidney-Max Etienne is featured as a Haitian environmentalist and regenerative farmer, connecting the work of Grown in Haiti to a broader conversation about food sovereignty, land stewardship, and the survival of traditional knowledge in tropical island communities on the frontlines of climate change.

In this op-ed, researchers Victoria Koski-Karell and Elio Dortilus trace Haiti's food insecurity to its colonial and imperial roots, documenting how U.S. trade policy and agricultural intervention have systematically undermined Haitian farmers and local food systems for decades. In the hills of Haiti's southeast, Grown in Haiti is cited as a living example of what it looks like when communities reclaim food sovereignty through regenerative land practice rather than waiting for outside solutions.

As part of the Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Sadaf Padder, Co-Director and Lead Fundraiser at Grown in Haiti, writes a wide-ranging intellectual essay proposing a framework for inclusive South Asian futurisms. Drawing on her time in the regenerative food forests of Cap Rouge, Padder weaves Grown in Haiti's work through the essay as a lived example of land as witness, healer, and future-builder. The piece connects ecological restoration to questions of diaspora, identity, and what it means to find belonging through the land.

In the wake of Haiti's 2021 earthquake, Vogue spotlights Grown in Haiti as a local, land-rooted response to crisis, one focused not on emergency relief alone but on the long-term healing of soil, communities, and food systems. The feature includes direct insights from Sidney-Max Etienne and Paula Hyppolite on regeneration, food justice, and what it looks like when recovery is led from within.

Sidney-Max Etienne joins the REV On Air podcast for a conversation about food security, regenerative agriculture, and community-led responses to Haiti’s environmental challenges. The discussion explores how colonial food systems have affected Haitian farmers and how local communities are rebuilding food sovereignty.

This short documentary captures the early years of Grown in Haiti's reforestation work in Cap Rouge, following Sidney-Max Etienne as he moves through the mountains with seeds, cuttings, and a vision for what the land could become. It is one of the earliest documented records of the work and offers a window into where it all began.

Food Planet Prize featured AgriNatif as an initiative of Grown in Haiti, highlighting how Haitian farmers are combining traditional knowledge with regenerative practice to restore soil, strengthen food systems, and grow local leadership. The feature recognizes AgriNatif as part of a wider movement toward community-led agricultural and ecological renewal.

SOIL’s December 5, 2024 feature shares Sidney-Max Etienne’s account of returning to Haiti and restoring land with the community. The article and audio interview explore compost, biodiversity, and the patience involved in rebuilding soil.

In “Regenerating Soil and Community in Haiti,” published October 2, 2026 on Mountain Rose Herbs’ Herbal Radio, Sidney-Max Etienne talks with Lucretia VanDyke about community, seed sovereignty, learning from elders, and the relationships between plants and people.