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Orange Sweet Potatoes – A Big Deal!

Orange Sweet Potatoes – A Big Deal!
By Colleen Walton It was only a few years ago that sweet potato fries took our taste buds by storm, and most of us have never looked back. In the global context, orange sweet potatoes are a nutritional powerhouse, with very high levels of beta-carotene which is converted into vitamin A in our bodies. Recognizing…
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Making progress despite the pandemic

Making progress despite the pandemic
October 2020 Update - More Food, Better Food: Empowering Kenyan Women Farmers Farmers Helping Farmers gratefully acknowledges the support of Global Affairs Canada.  At project onset, we were fortunate to have personnel available to move from other work to implement this project, and we hired a human nutritionist. We had done many of the project…
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Safer, healthier cook stoves

Safer, healthier cook stoves
We have recently installed fuel-efficient wood-burning cookstoves for the 70 members of one women’s group.  In all cases, these stoves replaced traditional “three-stone” set-ups in which food was cooked over an open fire, usually in a single pot balanced on the stones, in a small shed.   This approach exposes the cook and often her young…
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2020 FHF awards handed out virtually

2020 FHF awards handed out virtually
FHF awards go ahead virtually, despite the COVID-19 pandemic Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Farmers Helping Farmers awards were handed out, recognizing important contributions from some of the many volunteers that make our work in Kenya possible. The 2020 awards were handed out virtually, as part of the Farmers Helping Farmers AGM in July 2020.…
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The Spring Newsletter is here!!!

The Spring Newsletter is here!!!
Dear friend of Farmers Helping Farmers, Since our last newsletter, our lives have changed profoundly, and with the discovery of two cases of COVID-19 in Meru County in late May, the lives of our Kenyan staff and farm families are likely to see more impacts as well. The future is unclear – but we can…
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P.E.I. potato project shows promise during 2020 trip to Kenya

P.E.I. potato project shows promise during 2020 trip to Kenya
By Wendy MacDonald President - Farmers Helping Farmers Since early 2019, FHF has been working to find ways to find safer ways for Kenyan farmers to apply potato pesticides. Potatoes are now the second most important staple crop in Kenya, providing high volumes of nutritious food and an increasingly important source of income to smallholding…
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Date set for Farmers Helping Farmers Virtual AGM

Date set for Farmers Helping Farmers Virtual AGM
[caption id="attachment_1828" align="alignleft" width="960"] Nine Farmers Helping Farmers members were recognized with the 2019 Volunteer of the Year award - Rosemary Herbert, Winston Johnston, Judy Loo, Wendy MacDonald, Ken Mellish, Teresa Mellish, John van Leeuwen, Colleen Walton and Catherine Williams for their work on the proposal for the More Food, Better Food project with Global…
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Farmers Helping Farmers Seeks New Board Members

Farmers Helping Farmers Seeks New Board Members
  Board Renewal The Farmers Helping Farmers Board of Directors plays a critical role in steering the organization and overseeing its work.  This year, FHF is seeking candidates for three seats on the Board. We welcome all who are interested in our work.  At this time, as our work expands in new directions, we would…
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Job posting: FHF looking for a secretary and project co-manager

Job posting: FHF looking for a secretary and project co-manager
JOB POSTING Farmers Helping Farmers is looking for a motivated secretary who can work from  home.    Farmers Helping Farmers is a volunteer organization based in Prince Edward Island which carries out community-based projects in Kenya to improve food security for smallholding farmers and their families.  This is a part-time contract position. Workload will vary with…
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