It’s been an eventful first year at ACF. Our few acres have been busy with construction work, planting and planning. As we build ACF from the ground up our core team of five women have developed new ideas and projects.
Finishing touches are being made to our farm shop, office and meeting room. As well as our water reservoir that will be used as a fish pond with an integrated chicken coop.
Away from the bricks and cement, ACF’s founding members have been busy working on the seedling nursery- now ACF has hundreds of indigenous tree seedlings for sale, vegetable garden- which has produced three harvests, fruit tree orchards, bee apiary and caring for livestock.
While ACF’s first year was full of achievements, we also faced many great challenges. From floods to drought ACF had to adapt and replan over and over again. it has been a learning curve for our members taking on new projects, such as beekeeping, planting new crops and trees and learning new regenerative farming methods.
This year members will continue to grow ACF’s current project, with focus shifting to profits, while expanding on new projects. Excitement is in the air as many ideas and projects are being planned, including a nursery school, tailoring shop, hydroponics and bakery.
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