What an exciting day we had today. We started working at 7am this morning in the garden with about 40 people from the village. We split the volunteers into two groups and had part of them work on planting the ground nuts and the larger group continued building furrows where we had left of the other day. We also planted 20 Orange trees throughout the garden for shade and to provide fruit for the village.
We ended up getting all the area we had worked up planted and ready to go by the time we all went to breakfast at 10:30. It was amazing and Luke and i are stoked to have so much done. The people asked if they could work in their own gardens tomorrow and saturday and so we will be finishing the planting of the Kasava on Monday and Tuesday next week.
I am elated that we have managed to get so much done in just the week that we have been here so far and can't wait to see what the next week has in store for us. It is also extremely exciting that the germination time is about 5 days on the ground nuts and by the way the weather is looking right now we should get some rain today. Sooooo we should be seeing the first sprouts poking out through the dirt by the time we have to leave Oditel. :) I can't begin to tell you how awesome that makes me feel.
Can't wait to see all of the plants growing and doing great.
Peace and Love,
Adam
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How long till they will be ready to harvest? You will have to fill us July missionaries in on what to do to follow up on your garden when we are are there!! We'll take lots of pictures, I'm sure. The orange trees are just about the coolest part for me! I can just see the little ones walking around with juice running down their little faces and arms. So cool!
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