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Beekeeping – Part two: A Home for Your Bees
Thousands of farmers around the world earn extra money by keeping bees. Beekeeping can be profitable for you too. You can sell the honey and wax that bees make to earn extra money. And bees pollinate crops. This means that if you keep bees on or close to your farm you will probably increase crop…
Beekeeping – Part one: Have You Heard the Latest Buzz?
A few beehives could be an important addition to your life. You can sell the delicious honey and the wax that bees make to earn extra money. Honey and wax are worth good money on the market these days. And this is only a small part of the benefit that honey bees can bring to…
Women Conserve Water in Drylands
In a dry valley in South Africa, 40 women have reclaimed an unused valley and turned it into a green, fertile place. Like a scar on the body, a yawning gulley above their project site is a stark reminder that erosion once ravaged this piece of land. What is their secret? How were these women…
Uninvited Guests for Dinner: Managing the Cabbage Worm
Would you share your dinner with someone who has 20 legs? Would you share your dinner with someone who steals from you? Probably not, but this may be happening to you right now. In your garden the hungry cabbage worm (Artogeia rape or Pieris rapae) is busy eating part of your dinner. The cabbage worm…
Understanding Plant Disease, Part Two
Today we are going to tell you about some simple ways you can stop diseases from damaging your crops. If you do these simple things, your plants will have a better chance to stay healthy and free of diseases. Even if you don’t know the name of the disease that is hurting your plants, there…
Understanding Plant Diseases, Part One
Do you wonder why the leaves on your plants are curling up or falling off? Or why, for example, the grain doesn’t form on your rice plants? There are many possible reasons. But here’s one explanation. Your plants might have a disease. Today, we will talk about what diseases are, and why plants get diseases….
Growing Vegetables When Water is Scarce
Save and edit this resource as a Word document If your garden seems to be drying out, don’t give up hope! You can grow lots of tasty, nutritious food even if you live in a very dry climate. Here are some simple things you can do to make the best use of the water you…
Villagers Use Grazing System to Protect Their Land
Do you want to have more food and water for yourself, your family and animals? Are you looking for a working and lasting solution to infertile land? Listen to this story which Mutizwa Mukute, a member of the Farm Information Network of East and Southern Africa (FINESA), shared with us. Learn how the people of…
The many uses of the prickly pear cactus
Here’s some information of special interest to farmers who live in places where the soil is dry. Have you noticed that the soil blows around your fields? Are your crops stunted? Have they stopped growing? You are not alone. There are many farmers like you who worry that they will have to keep moving to…
Cross-ridging Holds Precious Rainwater on the Land
Do your crops sometimes suffer from lack of water? If so, and if your land is flat or almost flat, what I’m going to tell you now may help you increase your crop yields next season. Sometimes when it rains, so much water falls in such a short time that it can’t all sink into…