Harvesting our Maize

I’ve already talked about how we have had to chase the monkeys and the weaver birds away from our maize harvest, and although we did lose quite a lot of our crop to them, fortunately there was still plenty left over. Of course, everything has to be done by hand here, as we don’t have

Farming – Gambian style

Last time I told you about our maize crop, and I promised to tell you more about the farming and other changes here. All the maize has been grown from seed, and planted in ground that has been made into furrows using hand hoes. Lamin and the family have been steadily clearing the greenery in