Key-Hole Garden Farmers Project [Malealea, 10/30/2017-10/31/2017]

A Key-Hole Garden is a distinctive type of efficient plot that reduces strain and water consumption. The Malealea Development Trust has formed a society of primarily elderly women in the community who are vulnerable to malnutrition. MDT Field Workers teach these women how to keep Key-Hole Gardens, which helps them grow enough to feed themselves and sell some of their extra crops. I visited the home of a successful Key-Hole Gardener, an elderly woman caring for her orphaned grandson, as well as a Key-Hole Gardening workshop at Malealea’s community center. These photos were commissioned for the MDT’s website and a Facebook recruitment campaign.

a key-hole garden plot with water receptacle and sun netting, efficient farming technique for subsistence lifestyle — A Key-Hole Garden’s Water Receptacle

a woman and a little boy in a garden in Malealea, Lesotho — A Successful Key-Hole Gardener and her Grandson

MDT Field Worker Tsotang Monyane Points Out an Innovative Tomato Growing Technique in a Malealea Garden in front of the mountains — MDT Field Worker Tsotang Monyane Points Out an Innovative Tomato Growing Technique

Tsotang Monyane Surveys his Lesson Notes on Permaculture, key-hole garden workshop, efficient farming techniques, crop distribution — Tsotang Monyane Surveys his Lesson Notes on Permaculture

Key-Hole Garden Farmers association workshop at the Malealea community hall — Malealea’s Key-Hole Garden Farmers

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