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

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 [...]

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 [...]