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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

There were so many great things that happened on this, my fifth trip to Zambia in Mar/Apr.2017. As always, seeing this young man, is a joy and highlight of my trips, but this was a very special visit. For those of you ( like you Debs), who have read all of my medwoman.wordpress.com bl

Welcome to SEEDS B&B, Mongu- Mulopo Flats! Barotseland, Western Province, Zambia. We have just opened on Limulunga Rd. a five minute walk north of Liseli Lodge.  The Limulunga Palace is approximately 10km north of us. There are two quiet, clean, comfortable two bedroom flats with

I am so excited to be going to Zambia again from March 28th-April 19th, 2017! Each time I go, I have a mission. This time is to renovate some Flats and open SEEDS B&B Mongu. I was fortunate to have had Shaun Clever take a suitcase with 50lbs of things I will need to open this bed

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

  Merry Christmas from Canada & Zambia! Help us www.sendseedstoafrica.org so they may continue to sing! Donate before December 31st, 2016 to receive your charitable tax receipt from SEEDS in January 2017. Click to watch the video!      

  In April 2014 our Manager Fredrick, Assistant Manager Matindo and I went looking in the outskirts of Mungu for poles to build our Tree Nursery beside our Resource Garden. We stopped at this village where people cut down trees and hide them in the bush until they get a prospecti

I have 3 whole orange pumpkins and one white pumpkin that I collected on garbage day so if you would like to help on Giving Tuesday, Nov.29th I would love if you could come over and help me take the seeds out of them. joanne@sendseedstoafrica.org. White pumpkins are orange inside and

The question has been asked, “Why not just encourage seed saving of their native foods in the communities of Africa”. I can only speak of the communities where we work in Zambia but I am sure that there are similar problems throughout all of the African countries and other impoverishe