We love the tropics. With 57 inches of annual rainfall in Kumasi, you can plant a toothpick in the ground and it will grow. All year round we pretty much wear the same thing – shorts, tee shirts or skimpy-to-no top and flip flops or bare feet. And all year the gardens flourish. DECK WITH […]
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A lot of conversations begin with “In Kumasi here,” and so we rarely use one word without the other when referencing the Garden City. Here is a little tour of the neighborhood and beyond. This essay begins with Bob and Camille taking a walk through the neighborhood on August 9th to do some grocery
The biodiesel plant rises! BUSY, BUSY! The site has gotten busier with the construction of the biodiesel plant underway. We also got a large oven to use to process our feedstock. POOP BROWNIES! Yum, right?! We think so. Someone has to be the first to make more than one liter
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We spent the Summer getting to know a whole new group of people while many of our expat friends were overseas on holiday. Now that people are returning to Kumasi, we had great fun getting both groups together. August, 2013 – Kumasi VILLA SANKOFA Our host, Marvil (far right) darted from her busy
It was a quiet month in Kumasi, Ghana, nice and cool, with time for friends and gardening. We said goodbye to Nauzley and hello to Melanie, worked on the sanitation project, ate well and as always, saw many interesting sights. OUR LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN IN WEST AFRICA This is the entrance to the first
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A happy home is pretty, clean, filled with good food and surrounded by gardens. It takes planning and maintenance. Here’s a little tour behind the scenes of a typical month. GOOD EATING The kitchen is a hot spot. Camille spends an average of two and a half hours a day in meal preparation.
Another month of fun at the site… MASONS (NOT FREE) Here’s a mason and his two helpers, along with Eric as we headed out to the site to start construction of the new pump house. DESIGN/BUILD Bob came up with the design, and built the roof himself. The 480 volt, 2
The ups and downs of two gardens – one upstairs on the balcony deck and the other in the backyard. BALCONY ABUNDANCE Lemongrass, coco yam, peppers, parsley, basil and cilantro with turmeric and more cocoa yam tucked in the back. Bob rigged up a PVC water delivery system to make watering easy.
We made the most of Amy’s last month in Ghana, celebrating Camille’s 59th birthday at The Green Ranch, looking at fine Ghanaian art at the Artists’ Alliance in Accra and strolling the Botanical Gardens at Aburi. We also made a trip to the Kumasi Zoo, toured the Guinness Brewery and located one of Bob’s
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In which Bob (yet again) spoils Camille on her birthday by taking her to the Green Ranch for two relaxing days and horseback riding – June 3-5, 2013 NOT SO FAST There was a mild setback when the muffler on the car Eric borrowed to take us to the lake clattered to the ground
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