November 14, 2023
Wells for Zoë preschool Sunflower – The power of possibility
One of our big projects is in the Enyezini area. The area suffers from erosion through deforestation in the last 50 years.
February 6, 2023
Biodegradable Potting Tubes
We put a lot of effort in to keep the ecological footprint of our projects minimal. This is why we have changed the pump valve design to be created from old potting tubes via upcycling them. As we are growing evermore seedlings, eventually the amount
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
April 29, 2020
Local Maize
23rd April 2020: As Malawi heads into battle with Covid-19 with the most minimal of defences, we in Ireland have no concept of the war that wages this time each year there, against the most deadly of killers which is that of Hunger. As we sit and
December 15, 2019
News from an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Malawi
Would you like to be a part of this incredible change and to reduce the carbon footprint of your flight at the same time? With WfZ is costs just €10-15 to plant 100 trees - donate today to help us achieve our goal of planting
March 27, 2019
Enyezeni School Visit
This week I arranged a visit to Enyezini CDSS to see how the #1millionTrees planting was going, take some videos and pictures of the students and meet Janet, the Guatemalan Peace Corps volunteer teacher working there who initially paid for the seedlings from her own
November 5, 2018
First Monday – Lusangazi Farm
At first Wells for Zoë was just involved in pumps and water for life, but as time went by new projects began. For example, they discovered that they couldn’t buy open pollinated seeds in Mzuzu or even in the Capital Lilongwe, so they started developing
October 29, 2018
Peaches on the farm
29th October 2018: I think these are the first peaches on the farm. Just grafted and out of the greenhouse. Fruiting already! Can't wait for a taste. Two of the 37,800 fruit tree seedlings produced this year. Well done team!
October 22, 2018
Restoring Forest
22nd October 2018: This is a piece of land that we were given the use of at the end of last year by our local Bishop John Ryan, where we invite people to come and learn about trees and forestry. It shows people how to plant trees
October 15, 2018
Irish Apples
15th October 2018: They told me that apples don't grow in Malawi, where apples are imported from South Africa and Zambia and are very expensive. Undaunted we got some rootstock and scions from Irish Seed Savers in Scariff Co Clare, and with their European Passports, took them
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