My FTW comment from this morning awaiting approval. Thought you might like it! Now we are getting somewhere? My own ever increasing and unfulfilled interest in gardening only recently led me to a worthy project. It was the synchronicity of watching the Back to Eden wood chip gardening documentary soon after meeting a young West African man at Facebook. As he described life in the poverty stricken Gambia, his ulcer and his long time diet, it became clear to me The Gambia needed, high quality, inexpensive food and small scale sustainable agriculture for local markets first. Perhaps home delivery as a profitable convenience to a hungry nation. The Feed the Gambia Project was born and my African friend now has about 80 anxious friends awaiting enabling funding for wood chips, fencing and seeds, composting, worm farming and chicken farming. I then met a man from Kenya who is involved in a project there for sustainable organic agriculture begun in 2006 on an $1100 grant which has 1,000 small farm participants. The lack of further funding has dramatically slowed progress on that project and after viewing the Back to Eden documentary, Johnstone told me of his dream to obtain a used 4WD tractor and a dump trailer to move organic materials to the project small farms and their harvests to market. Total cost – $40K The Gambia needs solar stoves and ovens so homemakers and gardeners are not competing for the wood chips, which are now often used to cook white and probably GMO rice as the national staple food. So Shane, we might be able to help each other a great deal in the spirit of FTW. Please contact me when you get a chance. I see Feed the Gambia Project as a seed and model project for all Africa and the rest of the world. Never dreamed a 1.7 hour documentary and a young African would so expand my thinking! Let us daily increase in: wisdom, love, gratitude, reverence, healing, peace, joy, happiness, laughter and prosperity. Ed Howes
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:18:51 +0000
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