Thank you for the Maize Crop

I can’t remember if I told you last year … but South Pine Community Church donated money so that Willow Park could prepare and plant a maize crop.  This crop will be used to grind down into mealie meal and should provide the girls in Samkele with enough mealie meal for the year.  What is so good about this maize crop is that basically everything can be used and nothing will go to waist … please let me explain.

The obvious outcome will be the cornels from the maize which will be grounded down to make the mealie meal.  From this grinding down there is wastage which can be used to feed the diary cows or our rabbits (which we haven’t got …. yet).  The cobs and the stalks of the maize can be put through a silage cutter (kind of like a big grinding machine) which also makes for GREAT food for our livestock or as fertiliser for our fields.  We have also been advised to cut down half of the stalks after harvest and leave them on the ground for the next seasons planting.  Apparently this is a GREAT natural fertiliser. So, in theory there is absolutely NO wastage in this maize crop and it will be EXTEMELY beneficial in SO many ways … I can’t wait to see this all in action. 

Thank you South Pine Community Church for your donations … this act of generosity will go a VERY long way in helping Willow Park and it’s ministries.