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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
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 19, 2020
PEACE AND QUIET AND OPEN AIR
Dedicated Hassan says look yonder past the harvested rice paddies and vegetable beds to find Hope Sakuma's first bamboo accomodation hut...


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 12, 2020
SOMEWHERE A PLACE FOR US
Our artisan hutters turn thatchers for the day and a fine job too they're making of a palm frond and grass straw roof for Hope Sakuma's...