Kikondo, UG – GRY Family expands growing to supply school with commercial garden harvests – Sep 2023
The GRY family has expanded their agriculture activities by renting one-half acre of land to grow bitterberries (small eggplants). The family is... Read More
Kidondo, UG – family adds commercial garden to its agribusiness – Jul 2023
The YNM family has started its own agriculture business using earnings from maintaining Kikondo’s Zinabala VICOBA staple crop garden ( https://betterlives.org/2022/05/kikondo-ug-zinabala-vicoba-staple-crop-progresses-well-in-rainy-season-31-may-2022/ ).... Read More
Moshi, TZ – Commercial Banana & Crop Garden is a step on the Grow your Own Breakfast (GOB) program’s path to sustainability – June 2023
It is one year now since the collaboration between the Mwangaria Community, Tupendane team, Richard Challoner School students and teachers from UK... Read More
Utete, TZ – VICOBA volunteer families benefit from high sesame prices – Jun 2023
The Vicoba volunteer families finally harvested their sesame when it was the highest selling price ever in the market. A harsh drought... Read More
Kikondo, UG – Family adapts organic gardening to commercial growing – June 2023
The GJM family excels at creative and adaptable ways to earn income on the path to sustainable living, now including a large... Read More
Kikondo, UG – SMW family earns and saves money from FAITH garden – May 2023
The resilient SMW family, one of the early participants in Wamukisa’s Food Always In The Home ( FAITH ) gardening program, continues... Read More
Utete, TZ – Vicoba families Sesame production and business development story – Apr 2023
The farmers who planted their Sesame fields as usual, in January after the first rain, lost their sesame because it died due... Read More
Davao City, PH – Squash garden creates better health and income – Apr 2023
The Sunrise shop has become a good example and mentor of growing techniques to the families in Barangay Colonsabak, Purok 5 Barak.... Read More
Siem Reap, KH – Productive garden assists family to pay their Rent-to-Own home’s rent on time – Jan 2023
LY family was once featured in Better Lives monthly article “Productive garden assist family to follow their dream” in 2020. Now maybe... Read More
Moshi, TZ – Mobile solar electric pump assists Tupendane team to manage drought risk – 31 Dec 2022
Application of an alternative cheap source of energy is of a key importance to the sustainability of our affordable safe food production... Read More