At the end of April, the students of Nsanjama School did the following:
- They harvested their sweet potatoes
- They cooked and ate the sweet potatoes with great joy.
- They made compost manure from green sweet potato runners, ash, and dry plant matter.
- They sold some sweet potato runners for 1000 kwacha. The learners have agreed to buy harvested seeds with this money, even if it is not enough.
- Some students went home with sweet potato leaves on the side.
Pictures of the sweet potato harvest:
Preparing of the compost manure:
Sweet potato leaves as a side dish to take home:
We as Nsanjama School have the following plans for the near future:
- Prepare our garden again for vegetable production such as mustered, tomatoes and okra.
- Put extra effort on caring for our trees that survived from water lodged due to Cyclone cyclone Freddy
- Look after our live fence. This live fence is doing very well.
- Construct a temporary fence around the live fence forus to perform our activities well as well as protecting the live fence.
More than learning success through gardening!
- Learners managed to learn one method of cooking food which is boiling method as it is shown in their book of SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY for standard 6 (grade 6), book unit 14.
- They enjoyed as they were eating food they produced, prepared cooked and served for themselves.
- The learnt and appreciated the making of compost manure
- They have known that people can do well have good healthy through Agriculture.
GEORGE NTALAMU, REPRESENTING NSANJAMA SCHOOL
