SUSTAINABLE FARMING
LIVE IN GREEN conducts trainings in sustainable farming where the beneficiaries, Farmers are trained about key principles of organic farming understanding and managing biological processes to regulate balance, flow, and timing of nutrient levels and availability; achieve pest-predator balance; and maintain healthy and productive crops. Agro forestry practices like frost buffers, windbreaks, alley cropping & forest farming were conducted.
Through demonstrations, they are always trained about the different energy saving technologies like use of water purifying buckets and constructing energy saving cooking stoves. Demonstrations on energy saving cook stoves, Briquette making plus demonstrations on rain runoff harvesting are practiced by our beneficiaries. Water purifying buckets are also given to the beneficiaries to ensure that they take safe and purified water to a void water related diseases. These are normally given to the most critically vulnerable households.
LIVE IN GREEN trains community members on sustainable agricultural production, in which the people are given technical knowledge on sustainable farming. Improved agricultural practices/methods are also taught to the people so as to increase on their yields.
Also, LIVE IN GREEN promotes sustainable organic farming whereby it trains community members on how to make liquid manure as a fertilizer for plants and plant tea acting as a pesticide and also encourages crop rotation and mulching that helps in protecting and conserving the soil.