A lot has been happening at Kesho Leo over the past few days: Darren's family & Terry have been racing ahead with the joists for the accommodation block, our biogas system is taking shape and our mamas have been testing out our brand new "money-maker" irrigation pump.

floor joists

Working hard to get the mamas and Kesho-kids housed by Christmas, Darren's family & Terry have been breaking a sweat working on the accommodation block.

In the past couple of weeks we've seen the floor joists appear out of nowhere, and before we know it they'll be laying the flooring and making a start on the walls.  Good on you boys!

biogas "igloo"

What used to be a whopping great hole in our mamas garden has now been filled with what looks like a subterranean igloo.

No it's not home to some tropical Inuits, but will be Kesho Leo's very own gas supply.  The biogas system will convert manure from our livestock into gas for cooking and beautiful, disease-free fertiliser for our garden.  Find out more on Corky and Eve's permaculture page ›

watering made simple

So simple you can have a cup of chai while you do it! Watering our organic veggie garden used to take 4 mamas 1/2 a day, but now it only takes 2 chai drinking mamas 1/2 a day, while the others mulch, plant and weed the garden. How? Well it's all thanks to our new "money-maker" foot pump made by a local engineering firm thanks to Kickstart.org

Instead of having to do the back-breaking work of lugging buckets and buckets of water from the infereji (irrigation channel) to the garden, the mamas now just set up the pump and work-it like they're on a walking-exercise-machine.  Easy!  In future we'll be using the pump to water our garden and fruit orchards with nutrient-rich water from our aquaculture-ponds without any power.