by Louise Ruhr | Jul 11, 2014 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Solar Power Projects, Tree Nurseries
CREATE! community gardens remain lush and green even in July, at the end of the dry season in Senegal. In Thieneba, cooperative members and CREATE! field technicians work to ensure that the community’s garden remains an oasis in the desert. In late June, residents...
by Louise Ruhr | Jun 23, 2014 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Water
Without access to an affordable source of water, year-round vegetable cultivation is impossible in Senegal, where the annual dry season is nine months long. June marks the end of the long dry season, but the rains have not yet arrived. In four of CREATE!’s partner...
by Louise Ruhr | Jun 4, 2014 | Cooperative Community Gardens
Locusts and grasshoppers have plagued farmers in West Africa for thousands of years. These swarming pests eat the equivalent of their own weight in a day and can decimate rice, millet, maize, and vegetable crops, in addition to fruit trees. A plague of locusts can...
by Louise Ruhr | Mar 26, 2014 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Senegal
Relationships, trust, and understanding take time to cultivate and refine. Since beginning programming in the village of Thieneba in 2011, CREATE!’s team has worked alongside community members to implement and maintain a cooperative community garden. This past...
by Louise Ruhr | Jun 10, 2013 | Cooperative Community Gardens
“We are lucky to have CREATE! in our lives. We have been given a great opportunity. Now, when we cook our lunch we can go to the garden site to get some vegetables for the meal. Before, if we wanted vegetables we had to buy them.” This is what women from the...
by Administrator | Aug 3, 2012 | Cooperative Community Gardens, Senegal
On my recent visit to Senegal I had the opportunity to participate in an amazing cabbage harvest at the CREATE! community garden site in the village of Ouadiour. Thanks to the solar powered pump that is providing 4,000 liters per day of fresh water for the gardens,...
