It is 2nd January 2014, and we are all fresh from the just concluded year 2013. We thank God who enabled us to open up this educational garden and the children have returned renewed to work even harder in the New Year. Our French beans have been attacked by what our technical people have called […]
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The children had learnt how to create compost and brought from home bags full of decomposable materials. This showed me that the youth can put a lot of energy into any learning that makes sense to them. I wish the science teacher had conducted similar lessons while they were in school. Such lessons could have
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Yesterday we received a drizzle at our school- Gayaza High School 200m from our Community Education Garden and we celebrated hoping that our plants were receiving some water. Interestingly enough it looks like our garden is in a rain shadow because not even a single drop reached that area. This morning in Kampala-the capital city
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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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