farming

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”

One year of ACF

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 wellContinue reading “One year of ACF”

Building the Foundations for an Entrepreneurial Village

This month we broke ground on the foundations for SAM’s entrepreneurial village in Namadzi, a village an hour outside Blantyre, Malawi. After talking with the community, farm staff and touring other projects in Malawi our team had an idea what the needs and wants were in the Namadzi community. A group of six women cameContinue reading “Building the Foundations for an Entrepreneurial Village”