Praise God that the orphanage has been given a plot of land to use for farming from a secondary school close by. It's about 1 acre of land that's a five-minute walk from HHCH, so just perfect. The land has been farmed in the past so it isn't terribly overgrown but it has a lot of spear grass coming up everywhere that has to be dug up and burned (or it'll take over everything). PTL we have a lot of hands to help! We are also in contact with a common initiative group here that is coming to look at the land today. They will tell us the best ways to fertilize, what to plant with what, and they will even send us youth volunteers to help get the land all ready for planting. Looks like they will be giving us some seed too, plus selling us some at whole sale price.
Farming is so important in the Cameroon culture; we think it is so important that our kids will continue to learn this skill. Plus it helps us to keep our food costs down, and allows the orphanage to be a step closer to self-sufficiency. God is good!
4 comments:
Awesome Holly!! I am so excited for you guys. That is great.
So neat! I'm so excited for you all. I can't wait to see pics of the garden. Do you have room for a pig or cow?
Beautiful pictures. keep up the great work
No room for pigs or cows but the school said they could probably find us some land for that too! Biggest issue with animals is security as they are hot items, we need to find someone that will actually sleep at the plot when we get them.
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