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We have different growing seasons here in Canada than in Zambia Africa so it is often hard for me to get seeds to send over there in the start of their rainy season which is October-March. To help alleviate some of the food insecurity in Zambia due to high levels of poverty, we collec

Holistic Assessment.. Are we borrowing from future generations and leaving them in overwhelming debt… or giving them a platform to also enjoy healthy, wealthy lives? It’s more useful to consider ‘Holistic Debt’ which would consider both short and long term asse

Have you ever imagined having to sleep on a raised platform with a mosquito net so you could scare elephants away from your crops during the night? It is quite a common practice that farmers in Africa will have plots of land quite far from where they live with their families. In Afric

Our newest location is up and planting! It is wonderful how life goes and the connections we make. I met Paul, our manager at SEEDS Chipata-The Ngoni Seed Bank & Trees For Elephants back in 2014. I had seen his family in a documentary while watching TV here in Canada and contacted

In order to ensure that our wild animals are taken care of we need to feed the officers. By growing their own food, money saved on food to feed the officers will be money spent on other necessities to stop poachers from killing the animals in the parks. SEEDS is sending Non-GMO vegeta

Our manager in Kalabo told me in 2017 that farmers would walk for 9 hours to come and pick up a bushel of his tomatoes. Mualuka had over 3000 tomatoes plants. Can you imagine walking 9 hours there and 9 hours home to get a bushel of tomatoes so you could have some thing to eat and see

Fredrick,  our manager in Mongu and I laugh as we occasionally have to remind each other of things we have forgotten or done since 2011 when we first met. Fredrick is 62 years old now and I am 60 and even though we keep the best records we can,  we some times have to ask each other to

God Bless our manager Fredrick in Mongu. Fredrick speaks 4 languages and understands 5 so I am sure it is hard to keep them all straight when writing. I received some pictures of the 10 new banana trees he planted  and as our only way, yet again- as the Internet is so slow it is painf

Welcome to SEEDS B&B, Mongu- Mulopo Flats! Barotseland, Western Province, Zambia. We are located on Limulunga Rd. in Malengwa, Mongu just a quick five minute walk north of Liseli Lodge which has a full restaurant and bar should you want to go out for dinner. We can also make you B

I keep saying that SEEDS is taking me a long for the ride. All I have to do is think it and it comes! I was so surprized last week when our manager Fredrick sent me some pictures of our new gate. He is fortunate enough to have been given land from the Barotseland King many years ago a