* As part of our work to create food security and to encourage our local community to adopt plant-based diets, we loan people seeds. This enables them to grow their own healthy food and afterwards they give us back some of their new seeds so that we can lend them to someone else. * This is such a simple, low-cost idea and we are thrilled…
Seed Loans
Lots of lovely beans
Water tank – Hurrah!
We are very excited to have been provided with a much-needed 5000 litre water tank! Here’s what we did last week at Atlas Vegan Community School in Uganda: We built a solid base for the water tank that could hold its massive weight when full. Look how solid this is! 😀 When the base was ready, we put the tank on top, and then attached…
Early rain and beans
The rainy season usually starts in October in Uganda, and that’s when we planned to plant Atlas Vegan Community School’s food garden, but the rains started early this year. So a couple of weeks ago we decided to take advantage of that and planted 50kg of beans over half an acre. And look!!! Here come the beans to feed our children! The next thing we…