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 

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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.

Join us this Saturday

Register by filling out this form by Wednesday, March 24, 2021.

 

 Dangriga Urban Farmers Market Day

Coming in March

You will be able to order online. 

You will also be able to arrange for delivery or pick up (location will be provided soon). 

Picture of items will be added here and posted onto our Facebook page shortly. 

We will have a wide range of locally grown and processed foods, plus crafted items for you to choose from.

Don't miss out. 

Your body will thank you for showing it love and care.

Creative Home Garden Ideas

 How to create a planting pot using cement and sand

An experiment by Karen & Esieni - started 6:00p.m. October 28, 2020

(inspired by videos seen on YouTube)

Materials

• 2 plastic containers with designs (one should be smaller by an inch at least)
• Cement
• Sand 
• Containers for mixing
• Small shovel
• Transparent tape for sealing outside of both containers

Ratio of sand to cement used

14 parts sand

7 parts cement

Water (add to desired consistency)

 

Sand                                Cement                                Mixture (2:1 ratio)

Adding water to mixture

Adding water to pure cement to line the inside of the larger container (this will give a smooth finish to the outside of the pot)

Three one-inch PVC pipe are added for drainage

Filling the sides (between large and small container) to create the shape of the pot

Making sure there are no air bubbles and that the sides are packed properly. Shake often (do this gently)

finished product. 👍

We are leaving this to set for 24 hours minimum. 

We will see how it goes. 👀

After 12 hours. Looking good.

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After 24 hours

We took the sand from inside the small container. We removed the tape and tried to remove as much of the concrete that was pushing out as possible.

This is how the product looked just before removal of the outside and inside containers.

We were too excited to spend time going long cut. We cut away the containers (we got them from the local store for $3.95 and $2.95)

One thing we did wrong was to fill the space all the way up to the top of the inside container. 

This made it difficult to pull out. The top had a grove and some of the concrete lodged unto it.

Yes!

The last part here was to locate the place where the three PVC pipes were inserted at the bottom. This will be a job and a half to do. 😄 

We will fill it with paper or foil next time for easier digging.

We decided to give the top of the pot a design.

Shaping out the top - we put some hibiscus leaves on top.

We will remove these in the morning.

We are proud of our finished product so far. 

Do challenge yourselves to try this project. 

You can decide on different designs and shapes. 

Final product before painting

Colors - White (sides), Green (leaves on top)

Final product after painting. 

My herbs are waiting to be placed in their new containers. 👍👍👍

The next step will be for us to transfer a plant into it. 

Excited!!!

 

Second Dangriga Urban Farmers' Market Day Event - postponed

 

Postponed until further notice

Request to postpone received from Municipal Government - October 28, 2020

 (*due to rise in COVID-19 cases in the district)

Take note    take note    take note    take note    take note    take note    take note

DUF Second Market Day Event
October 31, 2020 starting at 6:30 a.m. & ending at 12 noon

Full social distancing protocol will be enforced

- Only 10 persons will be allowed around each tent at any one time.
- ALL persons must wear mask
- Sanitizers will be made available for cleaning

Interaction facilitation - to prevent crowding

- All items will be properly labeled. 

- Descriptions/recipes will be available where appropriate.

- Prices will be placed on all items or a price list will be made available. 

See you there!

Look forward to the next event in November - the weekend before Garifuna Settlement Day & in December - the weekend before Christmas.

Continue to stay safe and eat healthy

 Food for thought

How did our ancestors preserve fruits/food in season and in plenty?

Let's start the discussion...join us online...coming soon.

If you have some ideas, do share with us

Fruits/food available here in large quantities (in season) that people leave to spoil a lot of times.

Star apple

Molly apple

Wax apple

Black berry

Goose berry

Velvet apple

Golden plum

Sorrel

Okra

Corn

Avocado

Spinach

String beans

Green leaft vegetables

Tomato

Peppers

Plantains (ripe and green)

Cassava

Bread fruit

Banana (ripe and green)

Yams

Ginger

Herbs (assortment)

Citrus 

May plum

Hog plum

Craboo

Sea grapes

Mango

Guinep

Sapodilla

        

        Kindly add to the list