Meringo Planting
on Paul Sills (The Gambia), 26/Jun/2011 09:50, 34 days ago
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On Friday afternoon Pete picked me and the children up in his new four wheel drive he has bought the car as he is planning to travel back with Bernie over land. We are all helping Mick and Jenny plant some trees along with other VSO and Peace Corp voulunteers. The trees we are planting are called Miringo or never die as they are very hardy. They are a super tree as they are packed with more nutrients than most foods. The leaves can be dried and sprinkled into food jenny on the day even made a groundnut pesto sauce with the leaves and it was very tasty. There were about thirty of us in total unfortunately we ran out of manure to prepare the ground so only planted two long beds over 1,000 trees we could off easily have done double that. Some of the group started on digging another bed ready to prepare for planting. Overall the day went very well although I was glad I took a change of clothes.
