by kusamala | Mar 15, 2013 | Events, Trainings
For the past two weeks, Kusamala has been up to its eyeballs in Permaculture Designing. Northwest of the centre, in the classroom at the end of the market garden, nine people from the Lilongwe Wildlife Center (LWC) are participating in a Permaculture Design Course led...
by kusamala | Mar 6, 2013 | Events, Trainings
This past Saturday, Kusamala celebrated the graduation of our apprentices, who chave completed a six-month permaculture training at Kusamala. The apprenticeship program at Kusamala is an important part of Kusamala’s mission to strengthen the capacity and...
by Tiwonge Nkosi | Feb 17, 2013 | Events
Zodiak Broadcasting Station with support from the Civil Society Agriculture Network (CISANET) convened a public debate on Friday, 14th February at Crossroads Hotel. The topic being discussed was: “Should the State President of Malawi (Her Excellence Dr Joyce Banda) be...
by kusamala | Dec 4, 2012 | Events, Projects
This past week Charles Henderson and Grant Davidson paid Kusamala a visit as our Scottish partners on the JANEEMO project. Charlie comes to the project from Climate Futures and is responsible for communication and project development, while Grant is the International...
by kusamala | Nov 30, 2012 | Events, Projects
On Wednesday morning, Kusamala staff and interns, Mtendere Co-operative members, and our Scottish JANEEMO partners, loaded up the Kumbali bus and headed for Mdela Village in Central Malawi’s Dowa District. Excitement was high as we filled all of the seats and aisles...
by kusamala | Nov 23, 2012 | Events, General
Yesterday at the farm we celebrated the American holiday of Thanksgiving in the traditional manner – with lots and lots of food. While none of our Americans could exactly remember the story behind Thanksgiving (and we have a good number of Americans right now!),...