Seven families find success with a community vegetable garden

A family story from Wailiti Village, Indonesia.

Photo caption: Fransiska (with thumbs up), Katharina, Bibiana, Kartini and Ester Ngole, five of the seven families from Wailiti village, Indonesia in their cabbage vegetable garden. Delighted with their new home enterprise.

The vegetable garden in Wailiti Village, Indonesia is a family-run farm by seven families who received training to create a community vegetable garden funded by MicroAid Projects’ donors. The vegetable garden is currently only about 400 square meters.  It will be expanded later, as proceeds from the sale of vegetables from the first harvest start coming in.

A month ago, the families harvested cabbages for the first time and managed to sell 340 cabbages. The selling price per cabbage was 40p so the money earnt came to £136. The money was then divided between seven families, so that every family received £19. Harvesting the cabbages is carried out every 4 weeks.

To increase family incomes further, the group of mothers will now expand the area of the vegetable garden and plant mustard. Money from harvest of cabbage will be used to purchase mustard seeds and will be planted near their existing garden.

This good idea to expand their garden came from the group themselves. They wanted to plant quick yielding vegetable crops and get better prices.  Growing mustard was their choice. If they succeed with harvesting mustard, then each family will get an extra £22 per month.  When aggregated with the income from cabbage sales, the total amount will be £41 per month for each family.

Now the families in Wailiti need help to dig better wells so they can water their expanded garden more easily. Up until now, they use a small bucket that is shared between the seven families.

• For more information see MicroAid Projects Report
• See Wailiti village at Livelihood Members Database

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MicroAid Projects Team

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