In Wouro Hamma, a village located in the bush 30 minutes from Dawady, Eastern Senegal, the community vegetable garden is beginning to bear fruit!
Malik and Abdourahmane, who are in charge of the Dawady shared garden and its six surrounding gardens, have been working throughout the year with groups of women involved in setting up five community gardens in the surrounding villages. This programme is supported by The Ivory Foundation and the Marie-Pierre Crosnier Mangeat Foundation.
After installing fences in the middle of the year, preparing the growing beds and setting up nurseries just before the rainy season, the first harvests are finally arriving. Black Beauty aubergines, heirloom tomatoes, okra and cucumbers, grown from organic seeds provided by Agrosemens, are showing promising results.
The women are already planning to save some of the seeds from this first harvest to ensure continuity of crops for the next season.
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