New Harvesting Season

This week we had our first collection workshop for the year. It was a beautiful crisp winter morning. When we headed out it was very early and the dew still hung on the baobab leaves. Everybody was in high spirits for the start of the collection season. Baobab fruit have started to ripen and drop off the trees and the women in the villages have started to gather them up. 

At the workshop we discuss how the fruit should be gathered and stored. That they should not be picked from the trees so that the tips of the branches are not damaged to ensure that the tree produces fruit next year again. We will be visiting each village once a week. We also paid a visit to the chief of each village to grant us permission to start collection. We then re-elected a committee for each village who will represent the needs of the collectors in each village. And they are also our communication channel to the collectors.

Can you see that one of our collectors is a firm Zuma supporter?

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