From Scraps to Seedlings in Ethiopia

via City Farmer a report on the gardening work of Samson Aberra:

Sometimes when Samson Aberra is working in the garden, planting seedlings or replenishing his nursery, onlookers gather to watch him toil. What they don’t know is that Samson Aberra is not “toiling”—he’s barely working, he claims. In fact, he is doing what he loves: gardening...Throughout 2010, Samson irrigated his garden from the contaminated river. He noticed the quality of his vegetables did not stack up to other products in the market. With his earnings he installed a municipal water line direct to his garden, brining fresh, highland water to his urban garden. Every month he pays 10 birr for the water and now has a product he can really be proud of.
“Consumers need quality vegetables. It was an easy decision to make,” he says.
Samson grows a variety of vegetables as well as ornamental plants, which he sells in the market. He has embraced every tool USAID UGP has to offer including, fruit trees, compost piles and nurseries. Like a garden pro, he plans successive plantings and seedlings quietly wait their turn in his nursery.

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