Watering planks
posted in: Rubric South Africa, Silethithemba garden - Roosboom
Every day the children of Half Way House help gardeners water the garden.
Preparing the soil for sowing
posted in: Rubric South Africa, Silethithemba garden - Roosboom
A mixture of potting soil, topsoil and biochar was made with the children to do the sowing in the greenhouse.
Washing vegetables
posted in: School garden - Hlohlo region, Swaziland, Water management
Designing Hope undertook an awareness campaign on water saving. The washing of vegetables can be a source of waste, when it is done with running water at the exit of the tank. The purchase of basins for this purpose by … Read More
Visit of Yagma Garden after classroom training.
After providing classroom training at the Yagma school, APAF accompanies the students for an educational tour of the garden.
Harvest of vegetables at St. Paul’s School
posted in: School garden - Hlohlo region, Swaziland
Harvest of vegetables in the garden of St. Paul’s School. The children take part to the sowing, the maintenance of the vegetables, the watering and the harvests with a woman from the association Fundzisa Live. assigned to the garden.
Distribution of food parcels
Like every month, twice a week, Fundzisa Live’s women distribute food parcels to the most vulnerable people at Piggs Peak Hospital.
Garden extension
posted in: Burkina Faso, Yagma Garden - Ouagadougou
The Ivory Foundation has funded the expansion of Yagma’s vegetable garden this year to increase vegetable production to better meet the needs of the canteen. Behind the fence, a new hedge will be made of thorny and resistant trees to … Read More
Creation of a new compost
posted in: Burkina Faso, Yagma Garden - Ouagadougou
With a view to expanding the perimeter of the vegetable garden, a new compost was implemented for the Yagma school garden. A trench of 4x1m was made on 30 cm of depth to assemble by layer the compost ingredients: herbs, … Read More
Sowing in the mini-greenhouses
posted in: France, Traversine garden - Paris-Bercy
Sowing day at the Traversine … We enrich the soil to prepare the spring sowing
Strawberry jam
We collected our first kilos of strawberries on the garden of Traversine.the sunshine of the terrace has been beneficial! they were sweet and fragrant!Enough to make our first jams, labeled “jams of Paris” …