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Agroforestry is...?
Agroforestry is a sustainable agricultural practice that incorporates trees according to the needs of the farmer and the utility of the trees.
After a first month of interviews, it seems I will be working a lot with people who are interested in live fencing, fire breaks, and reforestation.
Other potential projects that will first be demonstrated as people are not familiar with the potential or possibility of such projects include alleycropping, intercropping, cut-and-carry livestock fodder growing, beekeeping, and nutrition supplementation and crop diversification.
I welcome any information or advice people who have worked on such projects can offer. Any tricks or tips to either motivate a population or any innovations on techniques are very welcome.
This blog will include information about projects I am working on as they come up, which will be interspersed with stories and anecdotes I hope people will find entertaining.
Thank you for any input, and I hope you enjoy reading.
I finally got tired of trying to convince women they should do a small amount of work to save themselves time and work later on by turning their three-rock cooking system into a fuel-efficient stove. So I decided to build my own so I can cook with wood, in public, and demonstrate how, why, and what.
The nice thing is, I can't work alone, ever. There are always children with nothing else to do. So even though I'm not working with the target audience at first, I still end up teaching the inevitable crowd of children how to build a stove, why build a stove, and later they'll cook with me.
At the end, I had a lot of extra mud so I smoothed out the walls perfectly with a wide apron and then built myself a chair in front of the stove so I can sit down in comfort molded to me as I stir my pots of rice and sauce. The stove will be in use about three weeks after construction so it has time to adequately dry (otherwise it will crack severely with the first few cook fires.
I finally got tired of trying to convince women they should do a small amount of work to save themselves time and work later on by turning their three-rock cooking system into a fuel-efficient stove. So I decided to build my own so I can cook with wood, in public, and demonstrate how, why, and what.
The nice thing is, I can't work alone, ever. There are always children with nothing else to do. So even though I'm not working with the target audience at first, I still end up teaching the inevitable crowd of children how to build a stove, why build a stove, and later they'll cook with me.
At the end, I had a lot of extra mud so I smoothed out the walls perfectly with a wide apron and then built myself a chair in front of the stove so I can sit down in comfort molded to me as I stir my pots of rice and sauce. The stove will be in use about three weeks after construction so it has time to adequately dry (otherwise it will crack severely with the first few cook fires.
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