Home of Hope Apprentices Settling in at the Centre
The Apprentices are fully engaged in their Permaculture curriculum and have been putting what they are learning into practice around the farm. Biswick and Eston have been keeping them busy with lectures, practicals and group assignments that fill their days. Not...
Perfecting Lettuce at the Mtendere Cooperative
Bidas Mwezukawala, Sapulay Kadyankena, Anderson Thomas, and Issac Banda (from left to right) display a beautiful head of lettuce grown by the Mtendere Cooperative. They are a part of the cooperative along with a group of farmers within Rural Lilongwe District. The...
Agroecology Short Course at Bunda College
Marie attended an Agroecology Short Course at Bunda College in Lilongwe at the end of September. In a classroom of about 40 students, she was the only person representing an NGO. All other students were from various colleges and government departments. The class...
Getting Hands on in the Fourth Day of Staff Training
The forth day of staff training was jam-packed with both theoretical and practical lessons. Biswick started off the day discussing the transitions between the different zones and the importance of learning from nature when creating permaculture designs. He highlighted...
Apprentices from Home of Hope Arrive at the Centre
Four new apprentices from the Home of Hope Orphanage in Mchinji have now safely arrived at Kusamala’s Permaculture Demonstration Centre. The apprentices are joining the Centre for a six-month, intensive permaculture training program sponsored by Seeds of Change, an...
Biking Through Dowa
Chisomo, the centre’s new monitoring and evaluation specialist, and Marie headed out to Dowa district to deliver tubes and check on the progress being made in the tree nurseries for the JANEEMO project. With 2 bikes loaded on top of the car we were quite the...
