Author: borderjumpers

Crossposted from Nourishing the Planet. I’ve had the opportunity to try some traditional–and tasty–local foods while I’ve been traveling in Africa, including amaranth, breadfruit, matooke (mashed banana),...

Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet. While touring Lilongwe, Malawi, we met Kambuku (which means “leopard” in Chichewa), who was soundly sleeping in his 2,500 sq meter backyard of fenced green landscape. He was...

Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet. Check out this video of Kristof Nordin discussing how growing indigenous vegetables benefits farmers in Malawi:

Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet.Check out a video from our visit to Kristof and Stacia Nordin’s Permaculture project outside Lilongwe, Malawi:

Crossposted from www.BorderJumpers.org. We’ve taken some long bus rides in Africa. We spent 8 bumpy hours on a bus from Nairobi to Arusha; another 8 from Arusha to Dar Es Salaam. The longest so far, though, has been...