Dangriga Urban Farmers Events for November 2021 and December 2021 & a little update from May 2021.

Hello again everyone. 
We are trusting that you are taking great care of yourselves and your families.

We want to update you on our events since May 2021

We are now officially incorporated as a non-profit organization. God is great!

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• We celebrated our first market day anniversary in July 2021. We started this venture in July 2020. We were slowed down by the sudden rise in COVID-19 infections in the country. Now that we have learned a bit more about it, and how to be careful, we are back providing the service we promised to the community. We are grateful to both Mr. Malcohm Zabaneh and Mayor Mariano for their ongoing support. 

                             

• We visited Central Farm in July 2021 to learn more about farming and to meet experts in the various fields of agriculture. The trip was very informative. We learned many ways how to preserve food items to increase their shelf life by physical manipulation (without adding chemicals as preservatives). 

• We visited again to assist a local farmer/entrepreneur in processing his plantain into powder. We keep trying to find ways to help limit the wastage of food materials and fruits

• We will be holding our market day for November on the 20th instead of end of the month. We want to help in guiding back people into eating sustainably, that is, using items they produce in their local environment. 

• On November 19th we also want to showcase local and cultural food, drinks, arts, crafts, and many more.

We also want to bring a traditional twist to Christmas...again with the aim to guide people back into eating local and making use of readily available materials in their environment. 

The market day in December will be held on the 18th. 

 Come and support vendors from across the Jewel.

Come join us in our quest to empower ourselves and our community. 

Become a member this month or next. Start the new year right!!!

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Seremein. 

Dangriga Urban Farmers' Market Day Event

Join us end of this month, Saturday, June 26, 2021 

We are looking forward to meet you. Invite a friend and share the flyer on your social media pages.

Help us make this a community event

See you soon!

 

 You are invited to join us

Dangriga Urban Farmers' 4th Market Day - May 29, 2021 from 6:30a.m. to 1:00p.m.

See you soon.

Feel free to call or email us.

DUF's activities since January 2021

 

Thanks to all persons who continue to support DUF's vision. 

 Let's continue to eat local, encourage gardening and farming, live within our means, and support local entrepreneurs.

To God be the glory

We are sharing pictures of some of our activities from the beginning of this year with you. 

Feel free to join DUF 

https://forms.gle/xJrovBDPkjXxzhff9 

Home visits 

Visit to Jason's house to learn how to propagate tomatoes by cuttings

Members discussing and learning from each other during the  home visit to Jason

Cuttings are removed and placed into a container with clean water until roots are formed. 

Note that tomatoes can be planting in buckets.

(We found - by experiment - that tomatoes bear faster when grown from cuttings)

Field trip to collect cow and sheep manure

Visit to Mr. Usher's farm

DUF Cookout - We used products from our own gardens and farms

Wayne provided the chicken            Sedella provided the cassava

Appetizer - sugarcane sticks and corn bowtie

Main course included French fried cassava, turmeric rolls, toss salad, mash pumpkin, baked chicken

Dessert options were cassava or sweet potato pudding

Juice options were golden plum or black berry

 DUF on task

Getting the food prepared

Natural fruit juices

Second Farmers' Market Day 

Ingrid's stall                 Wayne fighting with a jackfruit        Carlos Pottery      

                                                                        Sedella's staff

                                                                  

                          

Training in grafting and budding

Mr. Lambert making his presentation to members

Third Farmers' Market Day

Our activities coming up this month include:

• - Complete the work on our MOA (visit office in Belmopan)
• - Visit BELTRAIDE to seek information on how to formally marketing our products (including how to ship outside of the country)
• - Membership meeting this Saturday - May 8, 2021 at 3p.m. (Martinez Residence)
• - Training in basic carpentry (to enable us to build simple structures to use in our gardens) - date TBA
• Continue to assist persons who wish to start their own garden
• - Farmers' Market Day - Saturday - end of the month - May 29, 2021

Later

How to make your own ham at home

Join us May 29, 2021 at the next DUF Market Day event. Register here.

We are especially thankful to Mr. Malcohm Zabaneh for allowing us to use the open space in front of Puma Gas Station.

We are grateful to the Mayor for his full support of our vision and community efforts.

We say a warm thank you to the local media houses that have given us some publicity that allowed us to further share DUF's vision for community empowerment and development.