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From Year of the Millets to Year of Rituals: Xolisile’s story – Part 1

During 2023, EarthLore successfully celebrated the Year of the Millets, declared by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) with many activities, celebrations and ceremonies focused on millet and its diverse properties and uses. Millet, particularly Finger millet, is considered a sacred seed and communities along the millet belt in…

Visit to Lake Fundudzi, links to Sacred Natural Sites and Finger Millet

On the day after the Mazwimba Seed and Food Fair on 12 October 2023, there was great excitement about the planned visit to Lake Fundudzi, an important Sacred Natural Site for the Venda people. The visit was led by Vhutshilo Netshiavha from the Tshiavha community, a young man from…

Mazwimba Traditional Seed & Food Fair, 11th October 2023

For the first time, EarthLore Foundation’s annual South African Seed and Food Fair will be held in Venda. Limpopo, rather than in Mpumalanga province. The event will take place on Wednesday 11th October, from 9h00 to 16h30, in Mazwimba village, Vhembe district, in Venda. It is sure to be a…

EarthLore’s newly released Seed, Soil and Culture Video

Watch this inspiring visual journey showcasing EarthLore’s work since 2015 that focuses on seed, soil and culture – the very heart of EarthLore’s work.

Celebrating Millet at the Bikita Seed and Food Fair

A warm welcome to the 2023 Bikita Seed and Food Fair, which takes place today, 12 September, at Chamas Communal Garden, in Gangare Village, Bikita, Zimbabwe. This is the most important event on EarthLore’s calendar of celebrations of the Year of Millets. The theme of the Seed Fair is “Our…

Year Of Millets – Humwe Ceremony at Takaendesa Homestead, Chiroorwe, Bikita, Zimbabwe, 5th April 2023

By Natasha Zvemaruwa My first encounter with millet soon after arriving at the Turugare homestead, Bikita, Zimbabwe, was a deliciously bitter cup of maheu, a popular non-alcoholic beverage made, in this instance, with fermented millet and water. Simple, refreshing and highly nutritious! The full bowl of nyemba beans and the…

2023 – Year of the Millets

2023 is the Year of the Millets as declared by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). For farming communities who live along the millet belt and are accompanied by EarthLore in Zimbabwe and South Africa, this pronouncement will mark a time of celebration of years of reviving this…

The power of an indigenous seed to transform and transcend

Recuperation of lost indigenous seeds reawakens the cultural memory of the forgotten meals, rekindles hope of continuity, and gets communities working together again. Women’s prowess in seed knowledge, selection, saving practices as well as knowledge of indigenous seed storage structures come out through dialogues, an approach EarthLore uses in their…

Developing resilient seed systems that reweave the social fabric of a community

At EarthLore Foundation, developing resilient seed systems is a process that is centred around community dialogues. It is in these community dialoguing circles that the memory of lost seeds is revived – the forgotten knowledge and the rich and deep connection of the seeds to the people on many levels…

Improving household nutrition through diversifying household seed – The story of Ms Mildred Muchabaiwa, a farmer from the Gangare community in Bikita District, Zimbabwe

Miss Mildred Muchabaiwa is a young farmer in her early 30s living in Bikita, Masvingo province, Zimbabwe. Through the community dialogues and agroecology training offered by EarthLore Foundation, Mildred has come to appreciate traditional seeds and has been amazed by her harvests during the 2019/20 farming season. This has been…

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