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Namalo Permaculture Demonstration Site and Farm

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Commenced:	01/09/2012
Submitted:	19/02/2013
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Namalo, next to a shop called County, House, Namalo (next to Rwambwa), Bunyala, Busia, KE
Phone:	+254(0)704316285
Climate zone:	Wet/Dry Tropical

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Posted by Chiel van der Voort about 11 years ago

Over the past four months a lot of progress has been made: thousands of trees planted, nursery expanded, kitchen and animal shelter built, biogas installed, water tanks being fixed as we speak.

Since my return from Kyrgyzstan, a quick two week visit to Jordan and two months of immersion in tropical permaculture in Uganda, I've returned to Namalo and gotten things into order.

I realised that the tree nursery was a major bottleneck, so that one was expanded first to a size which now outproduces our treeplanting needs. Karim, my first employee, who joined me in September 2012, used it as an opportunity to strengthen his carpenter skills. After the nursery we added a portable compost toilet, which moves through the garden, leaving behind excellent fruit tree planting sites.

The much anticipated biogas digester was installed, enabling me to cook for myself some of my favourite Dutch dishes! That's some real progress, I reckon. Soon after a kitchen was put in place, which doubles as a garage, dining area, store. For the goats, chicken and ducks another structure has been built, giving them ample space for themselves, their children, and great-great-great-grandchildren to come. Both structures are now enriched with 5000L water tanks, which hopefully provide our livestock and ourselves with ample drinking water. If not we'll build a hall, lounche room, classroom, office later on, with a somewhat bigger roof.

More importantly Nora and Joseph, two other employees, have been planting a few thousand trees, sweet potato cuttings, cassava cuttings and crops throughout the one-acre piece. The food forest seems well underway now!

Also we've developed a diverse kitchen garden, which now provides us with pretty much all our vegetables. Meeting our carbohydrate needs is still one bridge too far.

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