Moringa, etc.

Alija shows us how she washes the moringa leaves after picking them from the tree.

We transplant the tomato seedlings. Hopefully when we come back after Christmas, these will be fruiting!

Then she lays them out to dry. Soon she'll move this inside her room to avoid dust collection and its actually best to dry them in the shade.

The coarse powder is sifted for a smooth texture and then bagged up for sale. This fresh, all-natural spice adds just the right amount of over ten vitamins and minerals to hundreds of foods when added to them. This literally could change the lives of the people who use it here and Africa, and those who want completely natural, balanced nutrition would be very interested in this product.

Dried moringa leaves are then pounded with a mortar and pestle.

Honestly Hikima, you're killing me.

Where I buy rice

Sometimes you gotta ask the locals for directions...

My good friend who sells me onions

A look at the market

Strapping down the day's load to make the bike back to my village

Walking to the garden. Things are much drier now

Checking out the progress at the dry season garden

Issah uses the pump and our new tank and hose to water the tomato beds

A scarecrow. Not sure how effective it is.

Hikima and me at farm

Look what these guys found at their farm!

It appears to be about a 6+ foot python of some kind...a little help from a herpetologist please? Sorry the head was already cut off, hence killing it.

In the village, you take meat any way you can. They were pretty excited.

Andrea Bailey tries rice balls and groundnut soup for the first time! How exciting

Old Man Bori at his store one night. He wants me to find him a job in America

Taking a look at our KTB in the night reveals that not only are bees still there, but so are 2 different kinds of other bugs. Mites of some kind I think. Entymologists help please?

Oh Hikima, you're so darn cute.

As our house gets wired for electricity, the man has to enter the ceiling to run some wires. I guess if you don't have a hole to climb through, you make one, and hope you don't fall :)

Me in my bee suit checking on a hive.

Andrea Bailey and her new friend. She literally wouldn't leave the village until we caught a goat and/or a sheep.