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Mo Bangura
Feb 21, 2020
WEEK TWO: LADIES ENTER STAGE RIGHT
The Ladies carry some biochar to incorporate into the first vegetable beds learning how this will give Hope Sakuma's vegetables strong...
Mo Bangura
Feb 16, 2020
MAMA MAYILAS' PASTORAL INTERLUDE
Mama Mayila's so keen to get to the farm she's helping pull the ferry! Mama Mayila's coming to check on Hope Sakuma's farmer field school...
Mo Bangura
Feb 15, 2020
WEEK ONE: FARMER FIELD SCHOOL UNDERWAY
Before Hope Sakuma's farmer field school starts a proper the Makelekos All-Stars prepare four precision vegetable beds in one quarter of...
Mo Bangura
Feb 2, 2020
BIOCHARS' BLACK GOLD
Hope Sakuma's first "oven" a mounded earth kiln to make fine ironing charcol of the highest quality; a technique used worldwide and...
Mo Bangura
Jan 30, 2020
FIRST STIRRINGS OF AN AZOLLA BOCASHI REVOLUTION
Now the Azolla's done its work boosting Hope Sakuma's ratooned rice the Makelekos All-Star ladies collect some from the rice paddies for...
Mo Bangura
Jan 22, 2020
RED ONION GREEN ONION
After our fine harvest of nutritious okra and melon the Makelekos All-Star ladies are learning how to plant a seed bed of red onions in...
Mo Bangura
Jan 16, 2020
AZOLLA RATOONED RICE HARVESTS AGAIN
The Makelekos All-Stars harvest the last of the ratooned nerica rice before threshing by foot a total of two bushel, sixteen bushel all...
Mo Bangura
Jan 2, 2020
THERE'S A PLACE FOR US
The Makelekos All-Stars pose with the frame of Hope Sakuma's first traditional build accomodation hut now under construction and tested...