“Make this desert a garden is our mandate from God.” A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, so the saying by Chinese Philosopher Confucious goes.  Our agroforestry journey started when we were visited by Roland Frutig an agroforestry expert from Switzerland 4 years ago. Roland Frutig described Agroforestry as a solutionContinue reading OUR AGROFORESTRY JOURNEY TO MITONGWE WOODLANDS RESERVE IN MALAWI →

In the first week of the month, we started by managing the existing plants through weeding and heavily watering our plants in order to maximize produce in existing plantations. From the second and third week we started harvesting sunflowers, maize and cowpea from one of the existing plots. We made about five, twenty litre bucketsContinue reading AGROFORESTRY REPORT – FEBRUARY 2024 →

Dear Friends, At the end of last year we were reflecting on our achievements, we are proudly sharing with you. Secondly, we would like to thank everyone for their donations and any other ways for supporting our work, without you we wouldn’t be able to come so far.We have started 2023 with an Agroforestry trainingContinue reading Achievements 2023 →

We started this month with weeding of all our plots and we have been watering everyday due to the type of soil that we have which dries up too quick. Watering with our current system with this type of soil has been taking up too much time and limiting our productivity. We have come upContinue reading MANGWENDE FARM AGROFORESTRY REPORT – NOVEMBER ’23 →

We had been digging 400 1mx1m holes for our next agroforestry project. We are now resourcing mandarin tree seedlings for the project. Mandarins because they are not affected by cold weather conditions like pawpaw and banana. Please help us to purchase the trees so they can benefit from the rainy season and will be ableContinue reading PROJECT NEWS – SEPTEMBER ’23 →

AGROFORESTRY REPORT: AUGUST 3 TO AUGUST 7 2023 From the second of August preparations were done at Mangwende farm to receive the permaculture guru Mr Piti and his five Poret organisational crew from Chimanini located in the province of midlands in Zimbabwe. Preparations included cleaning, construction of toilet temporary structures, window panel fitting on structuresContinue reading AGROFORESTRY REPORT →

After contributing to the Seed swap recently organised by PORET at Chimanimani, we are grateful Julious Piti is visiting MOCT site again. This time he will kindly be offering us valuable training to improve our permaculture farm with agroforestry and rain water harvesting. Next week, we will be hosting 20 people including villagers from theContinue reading We have exciting news !! →

Dear supporters,we had a busy start of the year with Agroforestry training for 26 women and 7 men from the surrounding villages and will continue with a similar training for the local youth.We have also started a new tree nursery and helping setting up nurseries for other communities.We are raising funds for budding and graftingContinue reading PROJECT NEWS – MAY ‘23 →

As this year reaches towards its end, the Mangwende Orphan Care Trust (MOCT) would like to thank all of you who supported our mission. We are grateful to your contribution as part of both our direct community and the global regenerative movement.For the MOCT team, the past year has been filled with abundance, challenges, lessons,Continue reading MOCT 2022 in pictures →

Dear Friends,with the rainy season started, we had been busy planting maize and soya beans, maize and peas. We now also have a seedbed of tomatoes and have planted herbs as companion plants.We are using organic fertilisers, but would like to fundraise for more as we still need to plant more maize so we nowContinue reading November Updates →