painting thousands of words

Dried parsley and amaranth freshly harvest. The next day we put lemongrass in the dehydrator and today made tea out of it! Still working on drying mangoes but people tend to eat them from the tree before we can collect them for drying : /

Rex, Karanja, Me, Jack and Shiro at a field we like to walk to on the weekends.

A bunch of kids were playing football but left the game when we arrived and really wanted to be in pictures.

A few of the girls from the slums who followed us the entire way to the field.

Our American, free lance writer friend Jill and I the day we both planted Loquat trees at G-BIACK. She's going to write a fabulous book about contrasting agriculture approaches within a global scope.

Either a black mamba or a cobra, depending on who you ask.

Sunflower forest! It was so so big, the picture doesn't capture it well.

Organic banana forest. It was magical.

If I never see or smell or hear a factory again in my life after living here, I wouldn't mind.

Me and a newly constructed seed bank near completion at Thika River.

The Saturday I took Jack (left) and Ni Ni (right) home (before she came back to live at G-BIACK). Every girl's dream to take puppies home in a cookie box!

A small group of our students showing off their tie dye designs they learned to make earlier that day.

I love "capacity building Mondays" I taught a class for the staff on making guacamole. So fun and yummy!

One portion of the seed bank, pre-renovation. Heading there in minutes to replace the plastic containers with really nice glass jars that I found donors for!

Threshing sunhem seed pods. The dried pods are the most FANTASTIC little percussion instruments! I even walk by them in the garden while they are still on the stem and shake them and hope nobody is watching