Outside Shamba

The new location for our Shamba!

The first bean to be put out in the elements; HOT sun, fierce wind and the goats! To protect him we had to make a fence.

Our little sister, Sabdio Dico (My name is Sabdio so she is little Sabdio), helping us dig the holes for the fence poles.

Duba has been so helpful, he went to get the poles (1/2hr to an hours walk away) and then he and some friends came to make the fence for us (since we don't really know how).

Myself, Jarso and Duba digging into the VERY rocky soil... will anything grow???

Here is the sad end of bean #1... after our nice fence was made, complete with gate we went in for chai. Funny thing about gates though, they work best when closed. So bean #1 was a victim of some baby goats.

We are mourning bean #1, but there are a few more that we can try to transplant outside. It is now bean #2's turn to face the test of living in Kalahca!

We are planting various seeds to see what will grow. We also have some dirt from the mountains that is more fertile (our inside shamba is all mountain dirt) to see if mixing it works better. Lets just say that farming in a desert is not an easy thing. But we will try!