An Encouraging Email

21 July 2011

We received this encouraging email recently from one of our champions.

We were thrilled to see hundreds of subsistence farmers preparing their lands Foundations for Farming style as we travelled back from Mutare on Monday. We took a detour around the eastern shores of Lake Kyle and saw thousands of planting holes being dug by familes. They had some rain in the preceeding week and were losing no time in preparing.

We also saw Foundations for Farming style composting structures, and ample evidence of last year’s crop residue left on the soil surface. We stopped at the one homestead and took some photos on our cell phone (right). This particular family have been farming this way since 2004, and reported a harvest of 3 tons of maize last year. Judging by the size of their field, I guess it would have been 6 tons per ha. They showed us their discarded plough.

So well done to you all – the training is obviously taking effect and bearing much fruit!

Love and blessings
Graham