Water System for Peace Demonstration Farm, Uganda

I love teeny tiny baby plants. They are fragile and delicate and absolute perfection. It amazes me how a tiny inch high seedling can grow into a majestic ninety foot tree and live for hundreds of years.

As you know- at Peace Farm- one of our focuses is on diversity, and teaching people about higher priced cash crops so that they can sustainably support their families. Variety also provides the consumer with new and exciting crops, filling a special place in the market. After all, it gets rather tiring eating bananas every day!
Fortunately for us, we recently received an order of seeds which are just starting to pop up out of the soil. We plant the seeds in a mix of pumice and palm peat fertilized with vermi-compost from the worms I keep in my kitchen. The tiny babies are just starting to pop up out of the soil, and it is so exciting to watch their little bodies uncurl and their leaves unfold.
Our current babies include lyche trees, mountain papayas, cashew trees, oyster nut vines, horseradish, tamarillo, rhubarb, and pineapples. We have a lot more seeds to plant as well, so I'll update you on how the dragon fruit and persimmons turn out.
We are growing these crops at the farm, and we are also distributing them to the villagers to grow as well. We currently had our first tree distribution meeting and gave away sour sop trees, mulberry trees, oyster nut vines, cashew nut trees, and tamarillo trees. It was wonderful to hear the positive feedback from the community as they laughed about planting and creating miniature forests. I'm excited for the day when we can give out some of these new babies as well!