Veg Box Day
Contributed by the Garden Team. The commercial garden is small. One eighth of a hectare to be exact. Each bed is 7 x 1 meters and there are roughly 120 beds. In the centre of the garden is a water tap and a large water tank for our drip irrigation demonstration. In...
Upland Rice Demonstration
As the campaign against smoking continues to gain momentum, tobacco growing countries are busy trying to find alternative ways of earning forex. Malawi’s economy is heavily dependent on agriculture and tobacco is the main forex earner. Tobacco markets are a very...
Achieving Large-scale Social and Environmental Impact in Dowa District
Climate Smart Agriculture for Rural Smallholder Farmers in Malawi: Through our CSA project, on Thursday, March 6th and Friday, March 7th, 2014 we convened our first annual district level Civil Society Organization (CSO) workshop with relevant stakeholders from the...
Bringing Drip Irrigation into our Demonstration
We are in the process of setting up a drip irrigation system into our commercial garden. With support from The MASHAV: Israel’s Agency for International Development (Under the National Coordinator for Presidential Initiative on Poverty and Hunger Reduction in Malawi)...
1st Update on the CSA Training Workshop
The Community Coordinator Workshop on Climate Smart Agriculture Started two weeks ago on January 20th. It’s a training workshop that combines lectures, field visits, on-site practical, participant observation, group discussions, and assignments. The training workshop...
Creating a Mulching Guild, Part 2: Introducing the Players…
In my last post I talked about observing the systems around us to get an idea as to why making space for mulch-producing plants is so important. In this post I'll start introducing the plants we use to create such a guild. The Pigeon Pea (Cajuns radicans) serves as a...
