Utete, TZ – Garden shop seedling beds – 22 Feb 2013
The organic garden shop will grow seedlings for the early maturing plants, like Chinese cabbage and tomato, in raised beds that have compost and rice... Read More
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Moshi, TZ – JO family garden – 25 Jan 2013
The Tupendane team and JO family planted earth basins with Chinese cabbage the week ending 25 January, 2013. Unfortunately, they had difficulties transplanting the seedlings.... Read More
Moshi TZ – PR family garden – 18 Jan 2013
The Tupendane team, PR family and friends planted week ending 18 January, 2013, and the family is very happy with the garden. They had to... Read More
Moshi TZ – JR family garden – 11 Jan 2013
The Tupendane team, with the R family and friends built the garden with earth basins the week ending 11 January, 2013. The garden is under... Read More
Moshi, TZ – GM family garden – 4 Jan 2013
The Tupendane team and GM family planted the new garden the week ending 4 January, 2013. Since then the family have been caring for it... Read More
Utete, TZ – Garden shop compost – 15 Feb 2013
Michael from USA and Chris from UK are in the Utete area helping Frank, Yusa and Omari start an organic vegetable garden shop, which will... Read More
Battambang – Salee joins garden shop team – 7 Feb 2013
This week was the first full week for Salee working with Rey, Phea and Lai of the vegetable garden team in Battambang, Cambodia. They introduced... Read More
Baja MX – G & P’s Home
Building a home for G and P was an adventure! First they lost their home in a fire, second their land is on top of... Read More
Caba PH – SO Family garden – 14 Feb 2013
The SO family live in the highlands approximately 2 kilometers from the coastal town of Caba town. Their home’s walls are made of bamboo wood,... Read More
Moshi TZ – LK family garden – 21 Dec 2012
The Tupendane team and LK family planted the garden week ending 21 December, 2012 with raised beds, and after 4 weeks the family are eating... Read More
Moshi, TZ – Kisangasangeni School garden – 13 Dec 2012
The Tupendane team helped the local primary school teachers and pupils start a vegetable garden in mid December, 2012. The teachers and pupils planted tomato... Read More
Moshi TZ – Tupendane garden – 30 Nov & 17 Dec 2012
Rey, Michael and Chris came from Cambodia, US and UK to pass on knowledge about organic vegetable gardening techniques to our Tanzanian partner called Tupendane,... Read More
Mt Kilimanjaro, TZ – Lishe Bora brings on new employee to care for primary school garden – 2 Feb 2013
Lishe Bora has hired a new employee to help maintain the vegetable garden at Mkyashi Primary School. The employee, Laurenti, will be responsible for maintaining... Read More
Rey shares memories from his first trip to Tanzania!
Rey Diaz, Better Lives’ organic farming lead, traveled to Tanzania in December 2012 to share knowledge and best practices with Better Lives’ partners in Tanzania.... Read More
Battambang, KH – International team designs organic garden program – 20 Sep 2012
A team of five collaborated to design a Food Always In The Home (FAITH) organic vegetable garden program in Battambang, Cambodia. The team consisted of... Read More
Utete, TZ – Cow project suffers setback but still brings benefits – 14 Aug 2012
In summer 2011 Parmiters students donated a cow to Siasa Primary School. They named the cow “Ng’ombe” , which means cow in Swahili. Today, Ng’ombe is... Read More
Utete, TZ – Mosquito nets keep students healthy and studying at night – 7 August 2012
In Summer 2011 students from Parmiters School in England donated mosquito nets to student studying at Utete Secondary School. The nets are still being used properly... Read More
Utete, TZ – Parmiters students improve local water distribution – 1 Aug 2012
The work that Parmiters students did in the summer of 2011 built the foundation for water distribution at Utete Secondary school. All of the water... Read More
Battambang, KH – New garden shop offers secure employment – 10 Jul 2012
CP and CBL are two local farmers that were hired by the Battambang Garden Shop manager, Reynaldo Diez, to help him develop and implement an... Read More
Ngara, TZ – School breakfast – 13 July 2011
Jesse and Michael of Seal Beach near Los Angeles, California traveled to Ngrara, Tanzania, in order to help a small team start serving a nutritious... Read More