Grow Food for 100 Homes in Uganda (Wakiso area)

The month of April, we continued to monitor, weed and grow more food according to the season.

We had 53 families who were 100% active. The farm has 95% women and the rest are men. Our goal is to increase the total number of men at the firm as that will help fill the gap of where men can do the heavy side of the farming while the women continue to monitor and nature.

Activities for the month of April included but not limited to:

(i)   Weeding of 2 acres of beans

(ii)  Weeding two banana plantations a total of 4 acres 

(iii)  Harvesting sweet potatoes which were delivered at the school on throughout the month of April

(iv) Harvesting cassava which also served the school and still continues to be served

(v)   Planting cabbage in the Green House.

Other progress

-       Good progress of fruit plants- especially Avocado (these were planted as wind breakers due to Global Warming and the changes and they will also be great snacks for the children once the trees start baring fruit.

Below is a sample of how the food was distributed from the farm to the school. Note that the posho is the powder processed from the maize (corn) freshly grown at the farm. This process is a value addition concept and we plan to 1 day own our own processing machine to cut that cost since we have to take the actual corn to a third party for processing into the posho powder. 

Date        Food Item               Quantity in Kgs     Duration

4/4/2023  Sweet potatoes            100                     One week

4/4/2023    Posho                         50                      One week

11/4/2023  Sweet potatoes          100                      One week

11/4/2023  Cassava                      50                       One week

18/4/2023  Sweet potatoes           150                     One week

18/4/2023   Beans                          30                       One week

This food supply progress is a great indicator and we hope to keep rising to the occassion.