MORE SUCCESS STORIES FROM Kisa West
We’re happy to share some photos taken recently by the team at CMRA to illustrate some of the techniques being adopted by the 30 lead farmers who completed their permEzone training this time last year.
Now that they’re in the implementation stage of the project, the farmers were looking forward to a good long rainy season to help in building their soils and establishing good cropping systems. However, they’ve experienced fluctuations in the rainfall pattern which has impacted their productivity.
Despite the erratic rainfall, the farmers are making good use of the little rainfall they receive by implementing their new farm designs: they’re putting what they’ve learned into practice, and starting to build practical experience of what works in their local environment.
Now that they’re in the implementation stage of the project, the farmers were looking forward to a good long rainy season to help in building their soils and establishing good cropping systems. However, they’ve experienced fluctuations in the rainfall pattern which has impacted their productivity.
Despite the erratic rainfall, the farmers are making good use of the little rainfall they receive by implementing their new farm designs: they’re putting what they’ve learned into practice, and starting to build practical experience of what works in their local environment.
Black Nightshade, grown for food and income (the leaves are eaten as a cooked vegetable).
A cowpea crop being harvested (grown for leafy veggie and seed for grain) - food & income.
Kales intercropped with onion. Kale is for food and onion for food and insect pest repellent.
Intercropped arrow roots, beans and maize for food.
A variety of crops for food & income - spinach, cowpeas, napier grass for animal feed and soil & water conservation.
A farmer practicing relay cropping, where a second crop is seeded into an existing crop well before that first crop is ready to harvest.
A site with a variety of crops for stability & resilience.
A newly established farm with a variety of crops.
Building sustainable futures
This third pilot project has nine more months to run through to its completion. Over the coming months, the team at C-MRA will be continuing with their vigorous extension work to improve on permaculture good practices, assisting the beneficiaries with site designs, and implementing participatory monitoring & evaluation to gather the data we need to demonstrate the value of this work.
With the end of the pilot in sight, positive steps are being taken to build the capacity to take this work forward on a much greater scale. We look forward to sharing more information about those plans as they start to take shape.
With the end of the pilot in sight, positive steps are being taken to build the capacity to take this work forward on a much greater scale. We look forward to sharing more information about those plans as they start to take shape.
Please help build on the success of the permEzone pilot to make this incredible program available to many more communities of farmers, so that they too can re-shape the future of their families, their farms, and their local economies –
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