History

After receiving a call from God to serve in the area of Creation Care in 2014, Alice and Martin were brought into contact with the Anglican Church in Tanzania, who had ~60 acres of uncultivated land next to a teacher’s college and conference center. Their vision was to help small scale farmers in Tanzania adopting more climate resiliant farming techniques such as Farming God’s Way, agroforestry, silvipasture etc. So together with the Austrian welfare organization „Hilfe die ankommt“ and the American organization „Care of Creation Inc.“ a memorandum of understanding was established between the three owning organizations.

When Alice & Martin arrived on the farmland in Tanzania, it was partly covered in thorny bushland and the soil was severely degraded. The soil was so hard-packed, that one had to use a pickaxe to dig it!

The project started with three Tanzanians and Alice & Martin, who mainly collected seeds, grew and planted trees, and slowly cleared the land. Choirs and over 240 villagers helped with more clearing and digging of the so essential water retention swales.

As most of the rain runs off without ever seeping into the soil, water retention practices greatly increase soil humidity and ground water levels. From originally only two shallow wells, where people would fetch water using drinking cups, by now we have been able to dig over 16 more shallow wells that have filled with water due to harvesting rain water. (these wells are containing water throughout the year)

About ten thousand trees have been planted on the land so far, about 3,000 being fruit trees. Other crops are pigeon pea, cassava, millet, peanuts, sunflower, maize, and traditional food crops such as lablab and indigenous pumpkins.

Picture Series

from 2017 to today

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