Our Lovely Garden

One of our activities during training is to learn how to build a garden.  Our garden was held in my host family’s compound.  My host father worked really hard on building a fence to keep all the animals out.  We planted three garden beds and build two compost piles.  We transplanted mentu (tomatoes) and botanse (eggplant).  We direct seeded carrots, cucumbers, onions, cabbage, peppers and okra.  This was a great learning process and our garden is doing well.  The days that I was gone in training my host mother would help water it because when we leave to our permanent site it is theirs left to be cared for.  I can’t wait to build my own garden in my backyard because it will probably be the only source of vegetable for me to eat.