We are continuing to sit on reed mats and chat with our neighbors and friends…
We started a seedling bed in one of our raised round garden beds…
We have attended many meetings relating to treadle pumps… One new area identified by the people is in out village but our Chiefs brother asked for some land and he granted him some in our village and so the brother decided to name it his own small village and so that is the people who have asked us to come. They have a natural spring fed river (very small) which never runs dry. Families with land along this are already gardening they just use a watering can and it takes 4 to 8 hours a day.
This is our first time to the area… see how dry everything around the garden is…
We found them watering and even applying manure to the gardens, it was great to see Malawians trying so hard to apply the knowledge they have to garden throughout the dry season.
Of course we brought a treadle pump to try, and so you can see the water source and one of the men pumping the water…
Bryan showing them different ways to actually water their garden
We also met with the Nanyango Irrigation Scheme and did a long training on how to use and care for the treadle pump and then we distributed 14 treadle pumps. One treadle pump per three families. The people where so happy, and even more people have come to us and asked to make their own groups for irrigation.
