This is Mr. Brobbey at his Moringa Farm. He has one acre at this site planted with Moringa trees. We harvested the leaves on this day, April 11th and spent a couple hours taking them off the branches. Mr. Brobbey will then dry them for 3 days or so and then pound them with a pestle and mortar into a fine, green powder.
The leaves are incredibly nutritious and is used for healing many ailments. They call this tree the Miracle tree because of all of its uses and cures. Mr. Brobbey boils the little branches to make tea which he says allows him to sleep wonderfully. You can learn more by googling Moringa or go to www.treesforlife.org.
On the day we were harvesting the leaves, there was a nice breeze. We sat under a shade tree and a beautiful flourescent blue and black butterfly landed near my foot and rested for a while. The neighboring farmers were burning their fields in order to plant more maize and cassava. They need to do this now before the rainy season begins.
Mr. Brobbey is trying to promote more Moringa farming in the area and sees a lot of potential. Moringa is very popular in Ghana. It is packed with vitamins and protein. There are many places that sell Moringa as a nutritious supplement and also as medicine. He hope to find markets to sell his Moringa and other farmers' Moringa in the area.
We walked through some fields to get to his farm. As we walked through one field, Mr. Brobbey commented that there was a large cobra here last week. Maybe I'll see one and hopefully from a bit of a distance.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment