Mbedza’s 2025 - 2026 environment programme for tree planting begins with the training and preparation for 6 tree nurseries this month.

We were able to select 6 communities for this task although many more are crying out for this intervention. Important lessons continue to be learned from previous programmes.

Our first small Tiyeni plot yielded 8 bags of Maize. A comparable plot using traditional methods and expensive fertiliser yielded less than half that amount. Tiyeni points the way for households to become more food self sufficient and reducing costs.

Mbedza is expanding this training in 2025.

In April 2025 a group from the UK and Belgium visited several Mbedza Projects. This blog looks at visits to some of Mbedza’s environment interventions - tree woodlots at Kagwa village and Mbewe village and a new development helping farmers to grow more food in a more sustaonable way - the Tiyeni method.

The team visited three organisations with similar projects to our own…

 At 1am we arose bleary eyed to the sound of our alarms, after an evening charged with the excitement of the day that lay ahead.

Last month we returned to Songani Primary School to plant their tree seedlings into their woodlot.