together -Jan 2016

had been to her family.
Everyone gathered
around to hear the conversation
and asked for
Dee to come back again.
Dee is currently learning
Kaonde, the local
language, to be able to
communicate effectively
and better help communities
like this to apply
Foundations for Farming
principles and thereby
break the cycle of poverty
and hopelessness.
— Nigel Webb
5
Lessons from
the harvest!
• God opposes the proud but gives grace to
the humble. After I read many articles on
growing techniques in the desert and talked
to Western ‘experts’, the locals all had much
better crops than me. I have come to realise
that the locals know how to grow a good
field and survive here much better than I do.
• Sow in good soil. There’s a reason they fight
over the good dirt and don’t do what I did
and try to improve the rocky ‘no-mans’ dirt.
• When the rains fall everyone has a good
field, but when they stop you see who planted
wisely. My rocky field looked amazingly
impressive while the rains fell! But when the
rain stopped it died off within 10 days.
• The height of your crop doesn’t matter; the
amount of corn or grain that comes off it
does!
• And to humble me even more...my wife
grew possibly the best peanut and bean crop
in the whole region in our little back yard.
Praise the Lord that at least I married smart!
— Pete Johnstone, Sebba, Burkina Faso
Harvesting corn with his neighbours: these
relationships are growing well through Pete’s
farming and are the key focus of the work.