The men and women from the village of Chisangano, Malawi come out to
greet Peter and me and the staff from Soils, Food, and Healthy
Communities. We also have a wonderful video of me dancing with them.
Those of you who know me well know how much I love to dance! But the
documentary guy I hired to accompany me everywhere (okay, Peter, my
husband, to whom I gave my little Nikon camera) didn’t turn off the
video (I don’t really know how to do that either) and so that video is
twe
lve minutes long, with ten minutes in
total darkness, filming the inside of his pocket. These small-holder
farmers also showed us their fields and talked about how they were
getting increased yields with new practices of intercropping and burying
the remains of some crops like cow peas into the soil. They are
withstanding the current food emergency because they have adopted new
agricultural practices and are providing their children and themselves a
more diverse diet. We stopped to sing many times this day.
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