Today we continued with our Nutrition programme where we follow up the food from the garden to the table. We had chance to learn from two of our parents and one teacher all members of the Gayaza High School fraternity …
Disease/pest Attack Record Pest Name: Bean fly or bean stem maggot Vector: Housefly Symptoms · Yellow blotches on the leaves · Swelling and splitting of the stem · Development of adventitious roots due to reduced number of lateral roots · …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …