8 foot tall and still growing!

Jeff and Sherri admiring Moringa tree at Chips
 

Neither chickens nor goats nor people can stop the Moringa trees!  After many false starts and abrupt endings (thanks chickens and goats!) we finally have a Moringa tree that is over 8 foot tall and it's only 7 months old!  It is now time to begin trimming the branches and adding the super nutritious leaves to the children's school lunches.   The teachers at Chipulukusu actually planted 6 trees but 5 disappeared one night leaving only this one survivor.  The day after this picture was taken with Jeff and me, a sturdy fence with an iron gate was installed to discourage intruders.  But we really can't be too sad about the Moringa trees disappearance since the idea is to eventually have Moringa trees growing throughout the community.  Thanks to Randy Heintz, we were able to take hundreds of seeds with us in January and share them with the health workers from Malawi and DR Congo.  They were super excited to get in on the Good Life Gardening project!

Newly fenced in garden in front of Kafwa Center