Provide Organic Gardens for 20 Indigenous Women

Nutrition lessons continue in Chumanzana and Santa Clara la Laguna.  We  spoke of the importance of good nutrition in order to provide the necessary nutrients to the body in one workshop.  Lessons on making herbal extracts to add vitamins to the family diet were well received.  The herbs used...

The workshops in Chumanzana and Santa Clara continue.  This month the women in Chumanzan learned how to make a herbal extract from "hierba mora" that they grow in their patio gardens.  The extract contains vitamins that are lacking in the normal family diet.  They put the extract in "atoll" a corn drink which...

The women of Chumanzana are busy with their organic gardens.  They are very happy with the new skills that they have learned.  They are using the skills they have learned to grow their own food.  They report that this saves them money as they no longer need to buy all their vegetables.  They also are...

The women of Chumanzana have realized many sucesses during this year of 2012.  With their family gardens, they have saved a lot of money because of the vegetables that they are raising that they eat daily.  They are growing them without using chemical fertilizer which is another saving.  They are using...

Since the very first days of our Organic Gardening Program, the women of Chumanzana have set themselves to work, full of energy and enthusiasm. After attending just the initial training, this group of 20 women went straight to work, sowing tiny seeds into shallow egg trays. What seemed like such a simple act has since shown...