At Malanti’s Garden of Skills in Eswatini, spring is the ideal time to propagate sweet potatoes. The women in charge of the vegetable garden set to work transplanting cuttings taken from existing plants, a simple and effective technique for multiplying … Read More
The five women in charge of vegetable production are currently preparing the nursery for the coming spring in southern Africa. They are working the soil, selecting the seeds and starting the first sowings. At the same time, they are continuing … Read More
The vegetable garden team set about enlarging the beds to increase their yield. The large grassy areas on either side of the rows of beds have been reduced, providing a 40% gain in cultivable area. These beds, located close to … Read More
The Garden of Skills greenhouse provides a protected space for growing crops, complementing the nursery area.
Every day, the four women in charge of the Garden of Skills vegetable garden maintain the crops grown on this one-hectare plot of land. Transplanting, weeding, watering, hoeing, sowing… the tasks are many and varied, so as to make the … Read More
In order to have a vegetable garden full of vegetables throughout the seasons, it’s crucial to have a well-organized nursery that regularly produces the plants needed to line the garden beds, in addition to the species planted directly in the … Read More
The women in charge of the vegetable garden at the Garden of Skills in Malanti, Eswatini, work their beds according to the principle of crop associations.In this way, the beds are never empty, crops are harvested according to kitchen needs, … Read More
The four women in charge of the vegetable garden at the Garden of Skills water the beds every morning, and the method of combining crops and harvesting them gradually means that the beds are never empty. The women replace vegetables … Read More
Every day, the women take turns maintaining the Malanti community garden. Part of the Garden of Skills, this 2,000m2 plot of cultivated land is open to the women of the Malanti community, who each benefit from 3 plots of land. … Read More
The women at the Garden of Skills have prepared a sieved mixture of soil, compost, manure and biochar to enrich the seedling trays in their nursery and prepare new seedlings for spring. Seedlings are sown in plastic trays and cups, … Read More
