By Michele Levy | Individual Donor Advisor
In September and October, our farmer participants in the Lira and Kole projects outplanted more than 88,000 seedlings consisting of several agroforestry species in living fences around their Forest Garden plots, including Leucaena leucocephala, Jatropha curcas, Moringa oleifera and Calliandra calothyrsus. They also planted an improved variety of banana suckers which will produce much more quickly than the locally-grown banana.
A vital part of our program is field school training. Farmers were trained in October on how to create and maintain a timber nursery. As part of the nursery, they received timber tree species such as Grevellia robusta, Maesopsis eminii, Albizia Chinesis and African Mahogany. The timber seedlings will be outplanted during the next rainy season in March of next year.
To date, our Lira project farmers have planted a variety of 1,130,230 trees and our Kole participants 1,152,957 in their Forest Gardens.
Thank you for your investment in the lives of these farmers in Uganda. Please consider renewing your commitment to this work to complete this targeted project.
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