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Another PVC hoophouse installed. This one with tables. Still some fine tuning left for the the next one but this one will work well!!!

Building a low cost greenhouse structure for a client’s food garden. The food garden was always the pet project I was most excited about, and the green house was a highlight of that. The last time I built one of there was on the US, where everything was available. Who would have guessed that there were no carriage bolts, or bell ended PVC in liberia. Or that the PVC pipes were not standard lengths. I wanted it to be 100% locally sourced, so there were some challenges, and we will make some design improvements for next time but overall, it worked, even passing the test of that freak storm Friday night. The cover is temporary. We got on the local market. I suspect it won’t last for more than six months but for $30 you can replace it easily. In this case, the client plans to replace it with something imported and very fancy with a 5 year guarantee. (at Marshall, Liberia)

Pleased as punch, or maybe #palmwine. Cecelia is pouring #palm #wine over dried roots to rehydrate then in the first of many steps of the three month process to make #OHN. #Oriental #Herbal #Nutrient. #koreannaturalfarming #knf #naturalfarming #organic #beyondorganic #farm #food (at Harrisburg, Montserrado, Liberia)

#beyondorganic #organic #oriental #palmwine #herbal #naturalfarming #ohn #nutrient #koreannaturalfarming #wine #knf #palm #farm #food

Serious composting! #Moses is #serious about what he does. He's a #composter, making high quality #compost. #vermicompost #organicmatters @ivar_hennes_ @bokashibill (at Mount Coffee Hydropower Project)

#vermicompost #organicmatters #composter #serious #moses #compost

Cecelia drying #vetiver roots. We thought we'd tinker with them a bit. Not sure what we'll do with them quite yet. Maybe some #Natural #farming #inputs, #OHN or #FPJ. Or maybe some #essentialoil. #CGNF #KNF #LNF #Liberia @bokashibill (at Harrisburg, Montserrado, Liberia)

#natural #farming #essentialoil #fpj #liberia #vetiver #knf #ohn #inputs #lnf #cgnf

Footy Field turf at LMI starting to fill in. Images from a few weeks ago and today. #beforeandafter #lawngrass #paspalo #notatum #bahiagrass #marshall #liberia #OrganicMatters @ivar_hennes_ (at Marshall, Liberia)

#organicmatters #notatum #paspalo #marshall #liberia #lawngrass #bahiagrass #beforeandafter

#Vetiver at attention, waiting to be deployed in the protection of #Liberia's #electricity#. #Sediment from #rain #water #runoff fill the reservoir taking up space that was intended for water. This reduces the capacity of the reservoir and the amount of electricity it can produce. Vetiver is going in here to trap that sediment, keeping it from flowing in the reservoir. #hep (at Mount Coffee Hydropower Project)

#runoff #electricity #liberia #water #vetiver #rain #hep #sediment

At my favorite #spice #vendor buying ingredients to make the #KNF input, #OHN. #KoreanNaturalFarming #organic #beyondorganic #microbialfarming #biologicalfarming #farm #liberia

#microbialfarming #vendor #koreannaturalfarming #beyondorganic #liberia #biologicalfarming #farm #knf #organic #ohn #spice

It's starting to get REAL! Spent the second half of today with Ross starting the annuals to be planted in about three weeks! Not going to list them all, but know that all your faves are there! Including 4 tomato varieties, and 6 lettuces. That's actual lettuces, we won't even mention the baby brassicas.

See Yourself Agriculture Youth!

Growing about ¼ hectare of Okra for us. Things are coming along nicely.

New Seed Order

New seeds ordered and on the way ! We are so excited to see how well these do in the #citygarden. Mortgage Lifter Tomato Tiny Tim Tomato Watermelon Radishes Salad Bowl Lettuce Black Beauty Zucchini Summertime Lettuce Merveille des Quatre Saisons Lettuce Early Jalapeno Hot Peppers Cantaloupes Rosemary Tropic Tomato Saxa Radishes Hy Brix Tomato Sweet Marjoram French Thyme Bronze Mignonette Lettuce English Thyme Summer Bibb Lettuce

Introducing our City Garden!!! A controlled clean germ free environment, on a mamba point rooftop! We are transitioning all non cooked, all herbs and hard to grow items to this location. We are trying to for as much as we would normally put on 1/2 acre on just two of these units. So far we have the the following planted. Veggies now...... Arugula Kale Mizuna Ruby red lettuce Minetto lettuce Basil PepperMint Oregano Cilantro Parsley Spring Kale Tatsoi Peas Green beans Michihilli(Chinese cabbage) Rosemary Spearmint & more

Arugula, Kale, Mizuna and Red Mustard! Karnue's first promising harvest. Nice work, Sir! Only the second try too. I'm hoping to get lots of this stuff out of him. I hope I can keep the promise I made to him in return for this!

From Liberian smallholder farms to Paris markets

Karnue Kalawolo, a Liberian small scale farmer from Nimba County, farms on 2.4 acres in Fendell, Louisiana, Montserrado County in Liberia.

Karnue currently grows lettuce, tomatoes, jalapeño peppers and fresh herbs for Grain Coast Farms.

Last month, Grain Coast signed a contract with a French supermarket chain to produce fresh vegetables, including okra, peppers and eggplant, for their stores in Paris. We plan to fulfill this order using Karnue's produce and 15 other farmers like him in the Montserrado, Margibi, Bomi and Bassa counties.

We just kicked off an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to help raise some of start-up capital for the project so that we can provide Karnue with all the equipment and supplies he needs to produce quality vegetables consistently for high income markets, and keep on doing it for years to come.

Visit our Indiegogo page to find out more about the project and what you can do to help.

Funding Campaign Update-Day 6

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