Moshiin osui valtava rankkasade toissa yönä. Vesi ja muta täyttivät korjaamamme rotkon koko yön kestävän sateen aikana. Rotko ja muut rotkot tulvivat yli pelloille. Tulvivalla alueella vesi tuhosi kovalla työllä kaivetut terassit, joille ruoho oli juuri kylvetty odottamaan sateiden alkamista. Kivipatojen yläosat (paitsi ylin pato) antoivat periksi. Se paljasti rakennusongelman: kivilaatikoiden verkkoja ei oltu sidottu […]

Rhodes grass seeds were bought from Tengeru Livestock Institute. In early April seeds were divided between the farmers who had terraced their land. In total 15 acres was terraced (seven farmers and a school). Ndanu volunteered to share dry manure from his biogass system for mixing with the seeds for sowing. It prevents seeds from

Tässä jännittäviä uutisia työstämme Tansaniasta! Työ eroosiorotkon korjaamiseksi Yam Makaan kylässä on alkanut. Työskentelemme yhteistyössä paikallisen kumppanin Focus Mreman ja hänen kahden Mombosta tulevan rakentajansa kanssa. Ndanu työskentelee Mombolaisten rakentajien kanssa, ja heillä on viisi apulaista kylästä. Työ alkaa kaivamalla paikka kivipadolle. Padot on upotettava pohjasta ja sivuilta hyvin rotkon reunaan, jotta vesi ei pääse

Some exciting news about our work in Tanzania! Work to rehabilitate one of the erosion gullies that pierce through farmland in Yam Makaa village has started.  We are doing it with a local collaborator Focus Mrema and his two fundis from Mombo below the Usambara mountains. Ndanu works with the Mombo fundis and we have

Yesterday and today morning Ndanu and other farmers in Yam Makaa (and Eija by Whatsapp from Finland) took measurements of the gully we had decided to rehabilitate with the farmers whose land it breaks. There is a photo gallery of the exercise here: http://www.liana-ry.org/gallery/measuring-check-dam-locations/ Eija has also produced two instruction sheets. One is about how to

Here are some photos of contour measuring and terracing in Yam Makaa. Towards the end of January we had realised that things will not start moving on out of farmers’ own initiative after the Christmas break. So a schedule has now been created in which each farmer can book a time when to get help