I was very blessed to have an opportunity to travel to South Africa to attend a week long Farming God’s Way training event called Infield Mentoring. There were several purposes of this week including: sharpening our training skills, reaching out to three different communities teaching Farming God’s Way, assisting farmers in these communities with setting up their Farming God’s Way gardens, assessing prospective Farming God’s Way accredited trainers (infield mentoring), and to network with other Farming God’s Way family members. There were people from all over the world at this training.

We were in a town in South Africa called Keiskammahoek, which was once an important commercial center for timber and agriculture industries. From what we saw while we were there, the agriculture has declined greatly since it was a commercial center. In fact we saw many fields with beautiful terraces completely abandoned. They had totally given up on farming because the farming practices they were using were not yielding much and it was no longer profitable for them to farm.

Abandoned farmland

This is where Farming God’s Way comes in! Using the Farming God’s Way practices, not only can the land be redeemed and restored, but the people can also be redeemed and restored. In fact, two women in the group we trained accepted Christ after I shared the Gospel during two of the sessions I taught! Farming God’s Way is an excellent way to reach people for Christ. I wrote a blog post about how that is carried out, you can read it  here.

These two ladies are now sisters in Christ!

Our team lead a group of 56 community members and spent 3 days teaching them Farming God’s Way. We implemented a small demonstration garden, put together a compost heap, built ten 40 meter planting strings, and helped lay out some farmer’s fields using Farming God’s Way. It was a great week! I learned so much from my mentors in the Farming God’s Way family.

Our team

Me teaching the step by step Farming God’s Way procedures through a translator

Putting in a small demonstration garden

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