December 24, 2020
A Christmas message from Malawi
Christmas time. Like every year the workers celebrated the last day before Christmas holidays with a feast at the main office with food and soft drinks.
September 16, 2020
Happy people
Today seed distribution has occurred at Ehleheni, Traditional Authority Mzikuwola, in Mzimba district. 50,000 seeds and tubes have been distributed to two clubs comprising 20 members each.
September 15, 2020
Visitation at Mpamba Zikhole preschool
We took advantage of the pump team going to Nkhatabay. We visited a preschool which is in operation. The caregivers were told how best they could teach preschool in the midst of COVID-19.
September 14, 2020
Apples
Here we have very early apples this year but they will take many more weeks to mature. Not sure of the final number but I feel that the farm will produce about 500 apple tree seedlings this year.
September 3, 2020
Helping the poorest to help themselves
Since we focused on planting indigenous trees this year the really serious work has been to find seeds suitable for growing the wide range of Climate, Altitude and Soil conditions we encounter over a large area from Central to Northern Malawi.
August 29, 2020
The Farm
29th August 2020: Way back in 2007 we bought a piece of land in Lusangazi about 11 km from our base in Mzuzu, Malawi. It was fully organic from the beginning. We have never used chemical fertilisers and never use noxious chemicals as pesticides. A year later we
August 27, 2020
Forestry Report from Jolozi
Today we went to distribute seeds and monitor nurseries at Jolozi. This place is very far from Mphompha. It took us two hours on a motorbike from Mphompha to arrive to this area.
August 26, 2020
Disaster: A puncture halts progress
Today we continued with nursery monitoring. After a flat tyre wiped out our day we very luckily linked up with people for indigenous seeds collection. They have collected 50kg of Mbula and same of Mng'ona.
August 22, 2020
Misuku indigenous forest report
We travelled to Misuku on Monday 17th August, 2020 in the company of Harisen. Some seeds like Msangu that we gave them at first place have just started germinating.
August 19, 2020
Misuku forestry report
Today we continued with nursery monitoring and comparing the number of tubes and seeds received versus with what has been sown on the nursery beds. 12 club nurseries have been monitored from different villages.
August 14, 2020
Gathering
Today we have distributed 47,000 seeds and tubes. The areas are Chiwelera and Kasela, TA Kawomba and Njombwa respectively.
August 12, 2020
Youth Groups
We visited and distributed seeds at Mphomwa area where interestingly the clubs are composed of youths. 16,000 seeds and tubes have been distributed. Each club has received 4,000 seeds.
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