Selamta Blog

Our darling Zenebech was hit by a mini-bus last week and was pretty banged up.  The driver took her to a inexpensive hospital where the doctor turned her away!  Zene managed to get back home, but when Tesfeye took a look at her, he called an ambulance immediately.

Today at four in the afternoon about a dozen of the kids met up with me at Tewordros House to begin gathering the materials for the kitchen gardens at Tewodros, Haile Selassie, Axum, and Hosannah houses.  Iarrived early and dug out about a half-ton of dirt from a pile of waste soil left from home-building in the area.  I have to pick over the dirt piles, avoiding clayey dirt, looking for friable soil with good organic content.  While I was doing this, several local (non-Selamta) kids drifted over and watched, then started helping by carrying buckets-full of dirt to the staging area where I will later combine the dirt with other materials that will turn the dirt into good soil suitable for container gardening.

The fun part of the day was gathering materials to create good soil for the container gardens we are starting in the houses.