#AfricaFarmers – Agri Project Africa

Chris Babu – Post #1 – Introduction

February 5, 2023 admin 0

This time we are introducing you to Chrisphene Ontonyi Omwebu from KisiiCounty, Kenya, and his Mkulima Nursery.Chris, as he is usually called, has been running the nursery since 2018.After graduating in the field of Agriculture resource management, it waslogical to start a business in the field and at the same time, to help societyconserve the environment and keep it green. The nursery was a way tosupply customers with needed plants as well as an opportunity to advisethe same customers on what would best suit them when they build theirown garden.Chris focused on tree seedlings, both fruit trees and ornamental trees,species, [...]

Celine – Post 6

February 5, 2023 admin 2

RESILIENCE! We all remember Celine Aluspato and her tomato project from earlier this year. She started in March from zero, growing and selling seedlings, building up the business to a one-hectare of tomatoes. In August, she had her first harvest. Her harvest was badly damaged from a Tuta attack. Tuta absolute or leafminers is a moth whose larva attacks tomatoes and can destroy the whole harvest. Not having confronted the leafminers before, Celine’s harvest suffered greatly from the attack. Many would have given up farming, changed crops, or otherwise altered their course. Not Celine. While she never stopped producing and selling seedlings, and [...]

Fresh Field – Post 1

January 27, 2023 admin 0

I am honored to present to you Mr. Lawrence and his Fresh Fields Community project. Fresh Fields is located in the Mwandi District of the Western province of Zambia. The project started in April 2020 when Zambia, along with the rest of the world, went on lockdown due to Covid-19. The objective of the project was to teach farming skills to young boys and girls. The project started with 8 children but the community quickly became interested in the project and after the lockdown, 10 more children joined. Now there are 28 children involved in the project, 17 boys and 11 [...]

Fresh Field – Post 2

January 27, 2023 admin 0

As explained in our introduction to the Fresh Fields Project, Mr. Lawrence started with only 8 children, a small group, which has now grown to 28 and keeps growing with parents in the area eager to enroll their children in the project. Mr. Lawrence meets with the children twice per week to teach them about vegetable farming and important skills in caring for plants and vegetables. Each child has a few plants under their care, which they must tend to, from planting to harvest. The children are then able to take their vegetables home for their own consumption or to sell [...]

Fresh Field – Post 3

January 27, 2023 admin 2

The Fresh Fields project has been running since April 2020. It started in the garden of Mr. Lawrence in the Mwandi Royal Village of the Western Part of Zambia. With the view of teaching children, the skills of growing tomatoes, cabbage, and rape The project soon outgrew the garden so Mr. Lawrence had to move the lessons to his farm. Tomatoes and cabbage is still stable crop in the program. But he also has other vegetables such as rape and eggplant. PHOTO GALLERY

Fresh Field – Post 4

January 27, 2023 admin 0

We are already familiar with Mr. Lawrence and his Fair Field project. But what inspires one person to dedicate his time and effort to teach children about farming? Mr. Lawrence was an unemployed teacher when in early 2020 he found himself without a job due to the Covid-19 lockdown. In order to maintain himself and his family, Mr. Lawrence moved to dedicate himself full time to farming on land he owned. Still, being a teacher, his calling was to teach, and when he noticed so many children affected by the lockdown, without school or any direction, he started to invite them to [...]

Fresh Field – Post 5

January 27, 2023 admin 0

We do have some great news about Mr. Lawrence and his Fresh Field project. His effort has been noticed in the area and the enthusiasm for the project and demands from parents to enroll their children spurred the chief through the area of Induna to grant him three hectares of land to dedicate to the project. Mr. Lawrence has already started land preparation to cultivate this new land and will be planting, with the help of his students, tomatoes, cabbage, eggplant, onion, and green paper increasing the crop selection and broadening the education of the children. With the new land, his [...]

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