NEW SITE

We've finished setting up the webpage for GreenManure.mw so this will be the last post on this blog.

Please go to the link GreenManure.mw for future updates and blogs.

Thank you for all the support and encouragement so far.

GMW is a Malawian based NGO promoting a safe, sanitary and dignified process that helps maintain nutritious, rich soil to help communities grow. Working with rural farmers, we uphold sustainable farming methods that increase soil fertility and water retention. We envision a world with clean sanitation that works for both the people of Malawi and their environment.

This is us

Go Big or Go Home?

Branding meeting scheduled for next week. We're going big because we're not ready to go home. Which brings me to wondering, where is home? The connection that I felt with the land and the people of Malawi was undeniable. So I'm going to say I'm going home to go big. To my wonderful friends and family at my coastal home. I miss you and love you dearly, but Africa's calling. Hope to see you in the near future, I'll be back for a visit. Stay safe and prosper.

Watch this space............

Wits students doing good with green fingers and toes

Very excited about my visit to the Wits food garden today with these bright young humans, although a bit heart broken to see the hail damage from yesterdays torrential storms. Nature is a beast at times but the challenges and efforts are never without reward and I believe this garden will grow rich and bountiful with the love and care that it's getting. Nice one Wits, keep it going.

This bed thankfully had protection from the hail so suffered minimal damage.

Roxanne and Chris enjoying a pose. Potatoes in the round containers to the right.

Toms & bean beds looking strong but the poor baby radishes were uprooted by the heavy down pore.

Hells bells

Last nights thunder storm obliterated four pages of my life. This pen makes a nice water colour art effect but I'll use a ball point for my notes in future. Life lessons. The messy writing is a log of the moisture levels taken from a digital display in the bus. As we got closer to Mzuzu town, you can clearly see the humidity rise substantially. This is why it is not an ideal area for growing Moringa.

Picking of the brain

Todays reminder on how to be courageous in world full of fear comes from the latest article from www.brainpickings.org

E.E. Cummings by Edward Weston (Photograph courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography)

Hypocrisy

In the instance of chance

The choices were made

That contradict the policy

For change to be made

Balancing on a fire wire

Of hypocrisy
Are WE so clever?

Finding just in in-just 

The impossibility of possibility

The cold fact from conspiracy

Controls the exploitation

Spiraling in tune

May it end soon

Order and balance resume

BH...today

  

Chineeeze owned super power with entire compliment chineeeze labour...phfff....

In the end

The flight out of Malawi was sad but I enjoyed the September issue of SAWUBONA, SAA's on flight mag. Aga Szydlik, writes about the plant knowledge and tribal heritage of the San people. And for the first time in 3 months enjoyed sipping slowly on an ever faithful SA Castle lager. That one's for you my friend...Chinchin 😎

My new office

Really good to reunite with the cats and a reminder that without office assistants paperwork would be dull and uncomplicated.

Love these girls so much

Mzuzu Market till late

James took me on a walk-about of the Mzuzu market and I found these beauties. I didn't know such a banana existed until now. Oh I would love to be the one nurturing such a gift of nature. Deliciously sweet and larger than the ordinary varieties commonly found. 

Such a treat.

Red bananas are the BEST

Usipa for Africa

Usipa are the smallest and most common variety of fish to be found. I found it difficult choosing which vendor to buy from since there are a ton of them at the market. Bargaining becomes a way of life.