Compost and clean up your city
We got a pit full of wasted, over ripe fruit from the Safal depot near our farm and dumped it in the specially made pits in my farm. Instead of just wasting the property, we joined hands with the St Josephs School senior class kids and they were brought to the farm to be taught to be more sustainable in their way of life. We have strayed away from how to be frugal and sustainable like our parents and forefathers were and instead, tried to be imitators of the West and lost what was a sustainable way of living. I always remember a pit in the garden into which all garden waste and kitchen waste were thrown. This waste once composted and broken down into black sweet smelling earth, we fed back to the garden when we re-potted the plants or topped up compost in the beds.
Kids learning to compost.
The schools that came enjoyed the classes we held, teaching them to understand the basics of sustainable living. They loved their visits and had no problems eating with hands when they were fed simple village meals. We also did a quick talk on menstrual hygiene for both boys and girls so they understood what it was all about and how important it is to realise its just a bodily function and not something unclean that man has made it out to be.
The schools that came enjoyed the classes we held, teaching them to understand the basics of sustainable living. They loved their visits and had no problems eating with hands when they were fed simple village meals. We also did a quick talk on menstrual hygiene for both boys and girls so they understood what it was all about and how important it is to realise its just a bodily function and not something unclean that man has made it out to be.
Menstrual hygiene which both girls and boys were educated.
Many of the girls were first scared to tell us, but after a while they let down their guard and told us how badly they were treated when going through their monthly, normal, cycle. This was where we stepped in and the older kids too to explain how important it is to look after their Mums and sisters and its just a normal part of life and not something unclean. Many boys who came from all boy homes were glad of the education which they would not have got otherwise.
They loved our hands on talks
Im so glad that so many schools çame forward and sent their kids in whole bus loads. We also taught them hygiene when they ate bananas -- the skins had to be thrown on the compost pile, not desecrated the whole farm. Thank you Maam and Sir said many of the kids who come from poorer and marginalised homes. They could never have enjoyed an open space orchard like ours. And Im glad we were able to do this with the children of so many schools before we sold the farm altogether.
