Part of the agroforestry design plan for the property we have access to in Baiima Sierra Leone is to plant Cacao in between the Oil Palms. The trees will grow in harmony together as in natural forests. We are moving towards this and Musa, the smallholder is sourcing the Cacao seedlings. Michael informed him the government is [...]
After the agricultural development work in Sierra Leone and KwaZulu-Natal was so amazingly blessed with resources that seemed to come from out of nowhere, I decided that perhaps I should be working in Agricultural Development vocationally full time. Upon consultation with Rick from Equipping Leaders International, I made plans to attend ELI's annual meeting in [...]
In the process of planning for the work in Sierra Leone, I was approached about doing agricultural development work for an orphanage/children's ministry in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 7 Rivers Outreach is a faith-based ministry providing support to the many many orphans and children in its area of KZN. The country of South Africa (and to [...]
On May 20 I arrived in Sierra Leone and immediately began researching several things in order to develop an Agricultural Development plan for a landholder of three properties near Daru in Southern Sierra Leone. The region has, as most of the tropics, a rainy season that runs from about June until about November. During this [...]
This past January I was able to attend the Tropical Agriculture Development course at Echo World Farm in Ft. Meyers FL. Info on Echo here: http://www.echonet.org. I also included a blog post regarding Echo, found here: http://www.narrowpassagepermaculture.com/tropical-agriculture-development-course-at-echo-inc/ As a result of that experience, I was recruited to work as Agriculture Director for a mission work in [...]
I had the fantastic opportunity to attend a course in Tropical Agriculture Development at ECHO Inc in Ft. Myers Florida in January. It was an amazing experience and I was able to learn a great deal during the week-long, full-days course. ECHO is a non-profit organization that provides education, research, and development resources to [...]
About a year ago I posted about my efforts to design and build a passive solar greenhouse that could maintain enough heat to grow salad greens throughout our could Blue Ridge Mountain winters Link: http://www.narrowpassagepermaculture.com/passive-solar-greenhouse-project The project is about 80% complete and it has been fantastic having fresh salads when the thermometer outside was reading [...]
To assist Thriving Nations, the charitable arm of Thrive Life, the freeze dried food solutions company Holly and I work with https://www.thrivelife.com/holly, Narrow Passage Permaculture offered a design project to work along with a school building project in Kenya. The project involved building a much needed classroom in a very poor area of Kenya. The children [...]
Several years ago I began a search for detailed drawings and building plans for a Passive Solar Greenhouse. A Passive Solar Greenhouse is one that does not use costly, artificial heat sources such as electricity or propane to heat the greenhouse when it is cold, but instead utilizes the sun as a source of heat [...]
