Khundi Mapping Workshop
Contributed by Austin Dunn and Julia Reynolds. For over five months now, the mapping team has worked closely with a group of ten farmers from Khundi village, some of whom identify as permaculture farmers and some who do not. In order to understand how these farmers...
Introducing The Gardener’s Course
Contributed by Luwayo Biswick Next month (26-30 May) Kusamala will hold its first permaculture course designed specifically for gardeners. The course is designed for gardeners in Lilongwe who want to learn how to design landscapes by implementing permaculture...
Veggie Spotlight: Senna Singueana
Contributed by the Garden Team. This week’s veggie spotlight centres on Senna Singueana. Senna Singueana is a leguminous shrub or small tree native to Africa. Every year its pods fill with beans that are similar sized to lentils that are eaten in Malawi and Tanzania....
Mapping Kusamala’s Fruit Trees
Contributed by Asa Strong. In late March, the Mapping Team (Austin, Julia, and myself) trained the community coordinators in participatory mapping techniques. As part of the week-long training we designed a GPS practical that would prepare the coordinators for the GPS...
Veggie Spotlight: Buckwheat
This week the spotlight is on Buckwheat. Modern buckwheat was first domesticated and cultivated around 6000BCE in Southeast Asia. Today it is grown all over the world. In the garden we have been saving lots of buckwheat seeds to expand our seed inventory because it...
Veg Box Day
Contributed by the Garden Team. The commercial garden is small. One eighth of a hectare to be exact. Each bed is 7 x 1 meters and there are roughly 120 beds. In the centre of the garden is a water tap and a large water tank for our drip irrigation demonstration. In...
