It is 27th December 2013, and we are all returning from our Christmas Holidays. The gardens are doing well and many more plants have come out of the ground. The heat is at its best and I am worried about the future of our plants. We are finding difficulty in securing the Gayaza High School […]
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Not a hot day again! The rains have completely disappeared as if to teach us the real challenges faced by the farmers. This is a good time for us to learn the real issues in farming. Luckily enough we still have the supportive hands from Gayaza High School farm who have continued to lend us
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This morning as I walked to the garden I was greeted with excited voices-“master mine are four”; “eh mine are ten” and so on. The true journey for the youngsters had started and learning was taking place. Many questions were being asked and answers sought. How come i have only four beetroot seedlings and yet
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The first activity of the day is now watering our gardens in anticipation of the first sight of a seedling. In the morning some children remained watering the gardens while the others went to carry firewood from Gayaza High School. We thank Gayaza for helping us with a water tank and thumbs up for the
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On Day 8 we went off for a tour at Katende Harambe rural-urban training centre in Namugongo. http://www.katendeagrotraining.com . It is amazing how an individual sets up an educational centre that is so inspiring that we all left ready to replicate the practices we saw. From rabbit rearing to fish farming; from Doddo gardens to
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Day 7 was low in activity since we only had to water the gardens. The challenge was in fetching water from a nearby borehole and using one watering can. The boys helped a lot with the pumping of water which is a tiresome activity. Later on in the day we took off time to start
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Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Today God blessed us with some sunshine and we were able to hit the ground running with some seeds into the soil. It was all smiles with the little children counting the number of seeds into each hole and across the lines. Each child planted their
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Day 5 passed unnoticed since it was still very wet and we could not do any work in the gardens. The rains in the past two days made it extremely hard for us to do any planting of seeds apart from the dodo we badly need to have in the next two weeks. The children
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Our day started off with a lot of train which continued up to about 10a.m. Thus we were not able to do any reasonable work in the gardens. In fact the children who started off with digging were only spoiling the soil and instead made it hard so we stopped them from working in the
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A mix of feelings here today. While we have been looking forward to some rains,it rained cats and dogs today and we were cut out of our gardens.It was not possible to have the children work in the rains on anything until late in the afternoon when we completed the clearing of the gardens.Is this
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