Kastom Gaden Association

Organic Backyard Garden (Sup Sup Garden) Training For ‘West Are Are’ Women

Posted on 26. Aug, 2010 by clementh.

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Rokotanikeni Women’s Association members in ‘West Are Are’ villages of Harimou and Komuhaoru had learned new skills on how to make organic vegetable gardens around their backyard (homes).

House for heathen farmers completed at Guanafiu farmer school

Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by tonyj.

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Lionel Maeliu has completed a special house for heathen farmers from East Kwaio to attend training in organic farming at Guanafiu Farmer school.

Sasamuqa Hospital re-establishes hospital garden for patients

Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by tonyj.

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Kastom Gaden is working again with Sasamuqa Hospital as one of its key rural partners.

‘Go Local’ Banana Diversity Workshop

Posted on 24. Jun, 2010 by clementh.

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As a result of the work done by Graham Lyons, Lois Englberger and Jeff Daniells when they did the banana and sweet potato nutritional awareness workshops in the Solomons (Makira)…

Rice Risk: Eating More Rice Can Cause Diabetes

Posted on 22. Jun, 2010 by clementh.

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This article was extracted from Solomon Star.

SOLOMON Islanders love having a bowl of rice on their tables during meal times, but an overseas study has warned that too much of it contributes to diabetes.

Henderson and Areatakiki Sweet Potato Trial

Posted on 09. Jun, 2010 by clementh.

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Reported by: Sevie Lausao- KGA The sweet potato trial is a joint program with CIP and MAL with two trial design. These two trials were supposed to be implemented as early January 2010, but the time taken to identify the site/ area had delayed it to February, when it was started. The methodology is a Split Plot Design [...]

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Livestock survey to active lead farmers at GFFS

Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 by michaelq.

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On 28th – 31st May 2010, the Program Support Officer for Small Livestock Mr Michael Qwanafia had visited Gwanafiu area in Malaita province, to identify active lead farmers in piggery and poultry. The survey is purposely meant to identify potential farmers who would be involved in local feed trials to prove the results of a local feed research project, funded by [...]