5th February 2016: Rose visited the farm today to look at Laston's plans and discuss issues and progress of new employees. Laston is the farm manager; The Boss Looks like the tangerines, oranges, mango and the rest of the fruit are about to ripen, that they are
31st Aug 2015: Wezzie is seen here digging around the citrus so that when the water comes it will sit for a while and soak in.
21st Aug 2015: They haven't seen a drop of rain for at least two months. This is Wezzie watering carrots and strawberries in the garden at the Lusangazi farm. For a month now we have been pumping water to a tank on the hill to water the citruses. Its
26th June 2015: Benjamin sent us pictures from the action on the farm today. Main pic shows Laston grafting Mango with scions bought about 70 km away close to the lake. These will produce large and better fruit and will be ready to plant out in January
22nd April 2015: After 4 years wait, we have our first really sweet orange in the orchard. Even though they are not fully ripe, we tested and tasted all the citrus varieties today. This one is not the biggest but is the tastiest. It is Late Valencia and certainly
4th April 2015: This is the first marketable crop of citruses in Lusangazi farm. These are Washington Navel oranges, taste wonderful and will soon be ripe. As well as producing fruit to eat and for sale they will provide buds for the next crop of improved variety
12th January 2015: Today its budded Citrus. We plant lemon seeds for rootstock then slice buds from Good variety citruses and attach them to the stem of the rootstock. We end up with better orange, lemons, tangerines, satsumas, limes and kumquats and many varieties of each.
8th January 2015: Since we arrived in Malawi I always had a view that Malawi should contribute to its own development. Pumps and wells are what we are there for and are free to everyone. However we started farming to show what could be grown and how