On Friday we set off on bumpy dusty trails to visit rainwater harvesting at Ayalaliyo and Mahhahha Primary Schools. Now that they have access to water, Ayalaliyo school has started a banana plantation. Nderingo explained to our guests the practice of conservation agriculture. The Dolichos lablab bean, a cover crop, has been planted throughout the banana plantation in order to suppress weeds, protect the soil from sun and rain, retain moisture, and as a nitrogen fixer to enrich the soil.
In the meantime, the kindergarten kids were playing some game that had them singing sweetly with their teacher before tearing back and forth across the field at full speed!!
After rainwater harvesting, we travelled on through the dust to Regina Aloyce's house in Bassodawish. Regina has a lot of stuff going on. She showed us her vegetable garden, her papaya trees, and her chickens, goats and pigs. Our visitors had the chance to enter her traditional Iraqw house and also the modern house made of burnt bricks and iron roofing sheets that she and her husband are building.
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