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Celebrating six new cookhouses in 2020, despite COVID-19

Celebrating six new cookhouses in 2020, despite COVID-19
By Teresa Mellish Six new cookhouses with school gardens  have been built in Meru County in the last six months, since the COVID-19 pandemic started.   Each cookhouse includes three large fuel-efficient stoves, a place to store maize and beans, as well as an area to serve food to the pupils.  Five of the cookhouses…
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Exciting Membership News!

Exciting Membership News!
Celebrating 40 Amazing Years of Farmers Helping Farmers In 2020, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Farmers Helping Farmers! Unfortunately due to COVID-19 restrictions, we are unable to celebrate in the way that we originally planned (parties, potlucks, parades, fundraisers) but we thought of another way to celebrate... In our 40th year, we want to…
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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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