Snaps of Feb and March

Dust blowing along our valley with backdrop of Mt. Suswa. View from hill behind our house. We are still in dry season. There's been some cloud build up recently, but no rain. We don't know when the next rainy season will come. Anytime from March to May...

Sunset delights

Proof that one of our partners is slowly getting back on its feet. A greenhouse full of tomatoes for sale.

Eland (large as a cow or bull) spotted in the bush behind our house.

Its what's for dinner.

Doug's handiwork. He helped fix this tank's leak so that the farm hand at our partner's demo farm could have water stored for when the piped water is not running. They also restored the base so that it won't keep crumbling away. Everyone loves Doug's creative building and fixing skills.

Last year, this is what the garden spot looked like before rainy season about this time. Just looking south instead of north as in the next picture. You can see a couple small green trees in the foreground.

This is the garden spot  and trees after the first couple rains last year about this time. You can't even see most of the trees sticking above the grasses. 

In the past year, the garden and the trees have grown lots. We took this shot just the other day. Notice the tall tree in the garden- this one probably grew 4x its height at least in one year. 

This year we've had to actually cut our grass 2x. This is a different process than you may imagine. It requires cutting the large prairie type grasses that grew from knee high to shoulder high in some places with a machete type knife or another tool called a "slasha".