By Nicholas M. Syano | CEO & Founder
INTRODUCTION
Drylands Natural resources Centre (DNRC) family wish to send sincere greetings to us all. We trust your all great and in good spirits. We are again happy to share with you our progress quarterly report on nutrition through food forests and gardens finds all of us well. Your kind support enable us to remain focused and continue to work with our over 600 smallholder subsistence farmers in the drylands of Kenya in environmental regeneration, economic empowerment and community regeneration. One of the ways to achieving these objectives is through Food forests and Kitchen gardens using permaculture and organic methods. We establish food forest and kitchen gardens in DNRC site for demonstration to the farmers and provide nutritious and organic food to the staff and the surrounding community. We also train and incrementally help the farmers to start food forests and kitchen gardens in their homes for food and nutrition security and income generation. Also through food forests established in DNRC, schools and by the farmers, we have started realizing benefits in terms fruits, fodder and fuel. DNRC the gardens are flourishing and both the staff, interns and visitors continue to get organic vegetables for meals and selling the extra vegetables for in come. It through your continued generous financial support that we were able to do all this. We once again say thank you so much.
During the reporting quarter, the following activities took place: Training farmers in establishing kitchen gardens and digging holes to expand their food forests, Propagating fruit trees to be given to farmers to expand their food forest, management of the existing food forests and the kitchen gardens both in DNRC and farmers farms. Below are detailed activities of during the reporting quarter.
DNRC FOOD FOREST
During the reporting quarter, the main activities in the food forest were tree pruning, weeding and mulching the production trees. Both bananas and pawpaw produce at this time and they are almost getting ready for harvest. (See attached picture)
DNRC GARDENS
During the reporting quarter, we planted and managed tomatoes and replanted and expanded the kitchen gardens. Since its dry season and with a lot of pest, we were busy controlling the pest through organic concoctions especially hot pepper, Sodom apple and neem. (See attached picture)
FARMERS GARDENS
During the reporting quarter, we were busy doing follow ups with the farmers farms as well as training them in Integrated Pest Management and kitchen garden management. Were also trained in hole preparation as they get ready for October – November rains. See attached pictures)
FOCUS ON THE NEXT QUARTER.
By Nicholas M. Syano | CEO & Founder
By Nicholas M. Syano | CEO & Founder
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