Projects

The Heart of ACF: Why the Farm Shop Matters

At Agricultural Community Foundation (ACF), the farm shop is more than a place to buy food. It is where our work comes full circle — from the soil, through member’s hands, and back into the community. The shelves are stocked with fresh vegetables and fruits, eggs, and milk — all produced through ACF projects. WeContinue reading “The Heart of ACF: Why the Farm Shop Matters”

Planting Beans and Sweet Potatoes for Healthy Soil

At the Agricultural Community Foundation, sustainability and empowerment go hand in hand. This past rainy season, our team planted beans and sweet potatoes across our micro-farm. These crops are doing more than filling fields—they are laying the groundwork for a flourishing vegetable garden in the coming spring while advancing our mission to uplift women inContinue reading “Planting Beans and Sweet Potatoes for Healthy Soil”

Brewing Prosperity at ACF

In the heart of Southern Africa, Malawi’s rich red soils and temperate highlands are proving fertile ground for more than just maize and tobacco. A quiet revolution is taking root—coffee cultivation—and the Agricultural Community Foundation (ACF) is hoping to be apart of it. Why Coffee? Why Malawi? Malawi, known as “the Warm Heart of Africa,”Continue reading “Brewing Prosperity at ACF”

Fish Farming Success

It is time to restock ACF’s fish pond after last season’s successful harvest. At the end of 2023 ACF embarked on a new project to build a fish pond and raise fish for profit. At first, fish farming was a challenge for ACF’s members as none of them had experience caring for fish. But withContinue reading “Fish Farming Success”

Welcoming Cows to ACF

The ACF family is growing with the addition of dairy cows to the farm. ACF’s dairy project is designed to give members first hand training and experience caring for cattle and producing milk that will be sold in the farm shop and supply the nursery school’s morning meals. Sales from the milk will be investedContinue reading “Welcoming Cows to ACF”

First Honey Harvest

ACF was a buzz with its first honey harvest this week. None of ACF’s members had worked with bees before, so the process of setting up the hives, working with the bees and harvesting honey was a huge learning curve for us all. Through a series of trainings ACF learnt each step of beekeeping. Finally,Continue reading “First Honey Harvest”

Fruitful beginnings

When the first visions of ACF were coming into fruition blooming trees were at the forefront of its plans. A cashew orchard running a long the middle of farm, banana tress along its waterways and fruit trees along the fence line. ACF held its first seedling workshop its newly built nursery. Mr. Mapopa Banda fromContinue reading “Fruitful beginnings”