An update on the steps vegetable garden

The winter vegetables are coming to an end. Tomatoes, peppers, watermelons and honeydew melons, as well as pumpkins, have been sown or are currently being transplanted. The employees who tend and plant the vegetable garden in Ongombombonde are highly motivated and are facing the greatest challenge at the moment: large flocks of Quelea red-billed finches, which fly over the fields in huge swarms and eat much of the vegetables grown, especially the tender seedlings. Mang mongooses and ground squirrels have also joined them. Once again, they are not satisfied with the yields of the rainy season and are eating the vegetables too.

Preventing the worst with tricks

Bird netting and closed shade nets are now being used with combined efforts and a few tricks to prevent the worst, to protect the harvest and keep the animals away from the fields.

To deliver and sell the harvested vegetables to nearby school cafeterias and more distant communities, you can donate here towards a used pick-up, which is also to be used as a sales stand for small street markets.

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