"Ungejuwe tuu Mama yangu, ninavyo penda pesa."

This story I heard this morning, and the above phrase has become a sort of humourous mantra around the Floresta Tanzania office recently. One of the savings and loans groups has a member, an older woman of 67 years, quite elderly for these parts. This woman has taken up the organic vegetable production system which we teach with great enthusiasm, and has 15 full raised beds producing vegetables for market. She is even selling to one of the higher end tourist hotels in the area around Kilimanjaro. This system, commonly known as bio-intensive agriculture, or double dug beds, makes heavy use of compost, mulching, and treatments using local plants to control insects. It produces high yields on a small area, with low inputs, and results in quality vegetables with little or no chemical input. Noting her energy and commitment to this activity, our national director during a recent visit asked her, why, while others are cultivating 2 or 3 beds, or perhaps 5, she is working so hard at this system, to which she gave the above reply, which roughly translates as, "I wish you could know, my dear, how much I love money."