Our Tree Nursery:
With support and a donation of £1000 from a local businessman, our Tree Nursery was established at the end of 2007 this was a godsend to the people especially when the troubles started after the elections in January 2008. Due to our benefactors continuing support, this Tree Nursery now supplies the saplings for our re-forestation project for fencing and for selling in the market, we have also expanded into fruits and vegetables.
Some of the Trees and plants we are growing:
- Calendula (good for bees)
- Eucalyptus
- Kayapa (thorn bush)
- Cow peas (thorn bush)
- Tithonia (good for compost)
- Vehonia (good for compost)
- Napier Grass
- Millet
- Beans
- Sukumawiki
- Groundnuts
- Maize
- Carrots(new)
- Onions(new)
- Suga(spinach)
- Muto like spinach)
- Diana(herb)
- Chillies
- Avocado
- Jac fruit
- Bananas
- Mangos
Tithonia and Vehonia are good for bees and can be used to make manure when flowers have died off.
To make the manure you cut the plants up 50/50 with animal manure and within 14 days the manure is ready, very good for mulching the bananas, every six months you add more manure.
Each banana tree needs 40 litres of water per week during the dry spell, no problem when the electric pump installed and the irrigation system working. At the moment we have to use the shallow well, that dries up in the dry season.
In the next year we should be harvesting 50 banana branches per week, each branch should fetch £5.
If we keep 10 branches for our children we can sell 40 per week this is on 1000 banana trees, we hope to increase this to 4000 banana trees next year.
We are in the process of setting up a new online donating system. Please check again soon.
Thank You!
