OUR GARDEN PROJECT

For some time, we have been working to develop food sources for the kids of the orphanage. On previous blogs, you have seen the poultry and the dairy projects. Long ago, we also began a vegetable garden. With all of these projects, our greatest limiting factor is lack of land.

The chickens and the cows can be fed from outside sources. For instance, the children go out to cut napier grass to be fed to the cows, and other greens and mash for the chickens. But food from the garden can be grown only on what little land is in the owned by the orphanage.

But here are some videos that demonstrate what the kids are doing. So far, we do not have a pump for the borehole, so watering the plants is done with water carried on the shoulders of the kids from deep in a valley. The banana leaves are used to preserve the soil moisture.

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