The rains are here

The rains have soaked the soil, its hot and its time to plant the Maize; the must-have crop in Malawi.
The basins are made over a month, with manure at the bottom with some lime to neutralize the built up acidity.
The seeds are dropped in and covered over and left for nature to do its part.
We keep the weeds cut and leave the residues on the ground, using the same basins year after year and so avoid digging hundreds of tonnes of soil.
It's called conservation tillage and in our second year of this pilot scheme, using no artificial fertilizer, Zambian, local, open pollinated seed, no pesticides and green manure plants and trees for soil nutrition.

Not a sign of Monsanto, Dupont or other multinational helpers??
We'll show you how we get on.