garden

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”

Adding some spice to the garden

ACF’s garden has been thriving with two harvests of juicy tomatoes, onions, cabbages and rape. These vegetables are staples in Malawian diets. The harvests were quick to sell on the farm but at low value. Most of ACF members have been growing these vegetables since they were children. To increase ACF’s revenue through its vegetableContinue reading “Adding some spice to the garden”