Permaculture in Malawi: Empowering Farmers with Sustainable Farming Practices and Multiple Harvests
Permaculture is proving to be a successful approach to farming in Malawi, with farmers using permaculture designs and principles able to adapt and grow food at multiple times with multiple harvests in one season throughout the year. This is particularly important...
Planting for the Future: Permaculture’s Institute Paradise (PPI) Mission to Plant 100 Million Trees and Train 100,000 People by 2025
Permaculture Paradise institute (PPI) encourages a sustainable farming method that emphasizes the interconnection of all living things, and is on a mission to combat climate change and food insecurity by planting 100,000,000 trees and training at least 100,000 people...
Promoting Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in Malawi with Permaculture
Permaculture Institute Paradise (PPI) has embarked on a mission to fight hunger by training farmers in the use of organic, permaculture, and agroecological ways of farming. This is in response to the rising costs of farm inputs that are making it difficult for farmers...
Highlights on Farmers training
Permaculture conducted its very first training of the year, it was a free training offer to 40 new farmers of Mchinji in memory and cerebration of Chilembwe day. It was decided that it would be best to not take leave but to have a working holiday for the sake of poor...
Compost toilets, the solution to Malawi’s Cholera crisis.
As the Cholera outbreak continues to ravage the country of Malawi, many organizations including the government are trying tirelessly to averse from the further spread of the disease while treating the symptoms. Cholera is spread by contaminated food or water and can...
first week of January 2023, Highlights
The passion fruits oasis in the villages of Madisi in DOWA District It was an amazing journey of 15 months of passion fruits oasis in the villages of Madisi in DOWA District, this is where permaculture aided a variety of seedlings to its farmers as a starter post...
last week of December
Amazing Permaculture Zone 5 December harvests, a true definition of a productive, sustainable, resilient free regenerative agriculture system. These are Mafowo/ Mfuwo/ fruits Syzygium guineense Both its fruits and leaves are edible; the pulp and the fruit skin are...
Second week of December
Permaculture farmers vs Conventional Farmers when planting in Malawi's Planting all farmers are planting their seasonal crops which includes maize / main staple crop which most farmers depend on. These photos were taken on the 10th of December in Mchinji district...
first Week of December
wetland permaculture Permaculture farmers in Mchinji are now able to extend growing and harvesting seasons by application of Permaculture principles into their wetlands which used to be spared for grazing animals. Agroforestry trees have been planted and are still...
Last week of November 2022 run-down
VISITATION FROM CARD On 24th November 2022, permaculture had visitors from CARD, they specifically came to learn practical agroecological Malawi examples. They were extremely amazed by the way permaculture gardens are plush and green yet it is just the beginning of...
