By Ssenyonga Vincent | Founder and Financial Controller
Greetings all partners of KCA,
A little parody on the "12 Days of Christmas" seemed fitting as we have joy in the month of December to give an update on the Stephen Baker Foundation Farm of KCA. We are happy to announce that we have received another donation from Mrs. Woolsey to add on another acre of land in memory of her son, Stephen Baker. This new land is in a nearby village and even has some eucalyptus trees on it. We have a dream to help as many as we can and having land in close proximity is important and the land was being sold for a very good price.
We decided to start by planting 450 banana trees on our 5-acre farm but due to donations received, we have only been able to plant 270. However, in between the banana tree rows, we also planted pineapples. The hardest part has been the labor of spreading the manures in the garden. There are more gaps according to how we planned them and in December and January, we shall be putting more coffee residuals to fertilize the soil.
We also hosted an agronomist, Mr. Dan Ssemanda who gave us advice on soil management, crop production and the use of herbicides and fertilizers. He has promised to be visiting us and giving us more advise free of charge to ensure our success. We appeal to everyone to share our work so we can get more people to help us complete this project. As always feel free to send us email or comment.
Merry Christmas!
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