Foundations for Farming Testimony

26 July 2011

Question:

How has learning about Foundations for Farming blessed your family?

Answer:

It was last year in October; I was living in Stableford with my uncle, Mr Chipeta. I asked him, “Do you know how to farm?

He said “Yes, I know how to do that.”
While we were doing weed control he says, “We have to take all these stalks and burn them.”
Then I say “NO! This mashanga is God’s blanket; we don’t have to burn them”
A month later we planted our maize and I am telling him that we now have to put those mashangas in our pathways.

They all say, “NO! We don’t want to do that, because it is labour.”
Then I say, “It’s okay I can do that.” And I did it.
Later we were doing our weed control and he saw that when we have God’s blanket we will have no much weeds and God’s blanket can stop soil erosion also. At last he recognises that when you are doing things with God and if you don’t lean on your own understanding God will make your path straight.