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  Below is a Crop Calendar to know when to plant and to expect your harvest in the areas we work in Zambia. Have a look at the calendar below to plan when you will plant your next crop. The upper part of the chart is for Chipata & Katete, the middle and lower sections of the

I met the three beauties, Zambezi, Nkala & Musilalli who are now at The Lilayi Elephant Nursery in Lusaka Zambia. I am so pleased to hear, after their amazing care at Lilayi,  the older two Njanji And Kakaro have been released into a wild heard. Here is the story from Game Rangers

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

In my last blog, you may read here if you missed it,  http://sendseedstoafrica.org/pickering-rotary-all-givers/ , I explained how we used the money donated to SEEDS from the Rotary Club of Pickering in 2016.  In this blog I will be explaining how we have spent the monies so kindly don

It was May 2011 when I started doing research about Zambia and it has been quite a journey! On October 29th, 2017 we will be starting our 5th year as a registered Canadian Charity and in May 2017 I started my 7th year doing what I love. I was told at the beginning of this journey that

I was finally able to witness the Kuomboka Ceremony in Mongu, Barotseland and had the pleasure of sharing the experience with my friends from Australia, Chloe & Luke and our SEEDS manager Fredrick.I have been to Zambia 5 times now and this is the first time I was there when on Apr

As I always say, this charity is taking me for a ride. It has a life of it’s own. I am just the facilitator of all the good that comes to us. When doing a Seedy Saturday in Parkdale, a woman named Stephanie saw our Silozi Seed Bank sign. She asked” Is that the language Sil

My husband Carl and I have been blessed by meeting a lot of wonderful people on our travels but I think this couple is at the top of our list! Even though they are upside down in the next picture. Meet Chloe & Luke! Young, vivacious, hard working, smart, courageous, kind, and very