29th January 2013: Mango grows everywhere in Malawi in November/December each year. The problem is that they all ripen together and regularly rot before they are eaten. We are tackling this in two ways. Firstly we are grafting nine new varieties to extend the season and we
21st January 2013: One of our contributions to horticulture in Malawi is to train interns, who come to us from the Natural Resources College in the capital, Lilongwe, to produce improved seedlings by budding and grafting. Here Benidicto and Robert are showing them bow to bud oranges. They
14th January 2013: Looks like its full steam ahead sowing stuff!! Robert's weekly report: Hi John Here is our second week January 2013 Farm report, our activities was as follows: We are still continuing weeding in both maize fields. It's just a few days when we was discussing about sales plan
11th January 2013: This is a special area in a citrus grove where we have planted passion fruit (called granadilla in Malawi) with wires on which we train them, as they have a creeping nature. This is Martha from NRC tying them to the wires so that
9th January 2013: Straight to work. These are the two horticulture students from NRC getting straight to work this morning. Harisen tells me that: They will plant more Radish, Beetroot, Coriander, Garlic, Onions, Carrot,Chinese, Mustard, Eggplants and Rape. Some of them they will start planting now. They will be
7th January 2013: This is a getting-to-know-the ropes session at the Lusangazi farm. The new people are interns from the major third level agricultural institution in Malawi: The Natural Resources College in Lilongwe (NRC). We do the practical work with their students and they supply us with