Country Reports

Canada

Chris Hornibrook | Foundations for Farming Canada

Key Highlights

Travelling to witness the great work in Madagascar was so significant.
We are also partnering with some new Canadian FFF partners to impact former soviet bloc countries. More details to follow.

New Joys and Challenges

We need to find new trainers, who will commit to following the new FFF certification process.

RECENT TESTIMONY

Locally, we continue to work with the poor in our area. One man, Subash, arrived at our farm last spring, financially broke, drug addicted, mentally troubled and lonely. Over the past year, he's been able to renew his faith in Christ and work through many of his life's challenges. He is currently enrolled in Noah's (FFF USA) on line course and hopes to spend more time learning and growing healthy soil and food. He's become our local leader/volunteer to help others now.

ESWATINI

Andile Moe Vilakati | Foundations Eswatini

Key Highlights

The reception of Foundations For Farming in the Beautiful Kingdom of Eswatini has been a slow but positive journey. The demonstration site that was established proved to be the best when compared to conventional way of farming. Trainings have been conducted to over 90 interested individuals so far and the has been progress in adoption. A group of dedicated students from the university of Eswatini together with the Rehoboth FfF team South Africa and William and Darrell from Zimbabwe established the first National demonstration site in Malkerns which was the main focus on how FfF principles can be a success and show the Emaswati how food security can be achieved. The student participation gave birth to an Internship programme where FfF methodologies were implemented at the University to show case what they had learned and we were willing to share. It has sparked alot of interest from the University Dean and other administrative staff members throughout the faculty of Agriculture.

A group of University students from different disciplines Introductory lesson on FfF.

Lettuce plots that students established and are now supplying Pick n pay Stores, which is one of the largest supermarkets in the country (franchise store).

FfF team from Zimbabwe, Rehoboth team South Africa and University of Eswatini students after setting up the national FfF Demonstration site.

Students chaotic eating of an elephant.

New Joys and Challenges

The positive changes in the character of the students who underwent the 3 day training and being perceived as leaders of change or at least being part of a revolution within the campus is overwhelming because many others are visiting their site to inquire about the practices and why they seem to be doing things differently.
The national roll out seems to be slow paced but we are positive it will make a turnaround and we'll see significant positives at a national level

RECENT TESTIMONIES

"The Director Consultancy and Training Centre characterized the departments initiative to allow Litulu Agriculture introducing FfF as a turnaround strategy for the institution encompassing the 3 pillars of the university mandate (teaching, research and community service). This is the template upon which successive 'field days' shall be framed. Litulu provides the teaching, community service and socioeconomic welfare of students. In addition, the opportunity for research is facilitated through proximity to the institution facility. It's a revolution".....These were the words of one of the lecturers who supports regenerative agriculture and the other aspects of Foundation for Farming because for every physical manifestation, there is a spiritual source.

MADAGASCAR

Haja Raso | Programme Pfumvudza Crown

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Malawi

John and Mary Beth Flippen | Crown Malawi Foundations for Farming International

Key Highlights

Did our Crown Shepherding School work? YES! Praising God for the fruit!
After the Shepherding School the 12 Lead Farmers went back to their villages to put into practice what they learned. Every 3 months the 12 Lead Farmers return to Crown to continue to build relationships, encourage one another, solve problems together and learn something new. To date we have had 2 Lead Farmer Days and the testimonies they shared are encouraging to us all!

New Joys and Challenges

A BIG joy is watching our Lead Farmers reach people we could never reach!

Building Relationships

Encouraging One Another

Solving Problems Together

Sharing Testimonies

This is what the Lead Farmers said after the 2nd Lead Farmer Day...

"I counseled a family that had been sleeping apart. Now they are sleeping together again!"
"I am using my land to train others." (She doesn't realize she has started a small training center.)
"I have started a small group that meets every Thursday to encourage each other."
"I have been using the Bible to help my children memorize scripture."
"I feel confident to share whenever I am called on...whether it is a Bible story or about family or about farming."

RECENT TESTIMONIES

This is what the Lead Farmers said after the 1st Lead Farmer Day...

"Even though we were laughed at for our new farming techniques, we kept doing them. Even through the drought, we could see a difference in our fields and our neighbors who had quit."
"My soil is so soft to walk on. It is healed!"
"I now know what it is like to be a pastor! People come to me at 7:00am asking me, "Come help me in my field."
"We made compost together and shared it. And, we shared money to buy seed." (Dependency has turned to generosity!)
"We did the Budgeting Drama - brought peace to people’s homes. Families now want to budget together!" "
"A muslim man wanted to know about my faith. Through conversations, this man gave his life to Jesus."

NIGERIA

William Karshima| Foundations for Farming Nigeria

Key Highlights

By the grace of God we were able to offer training in January 2025 and March 2025 with a total 61 participants.

Learning well

Out in the field

Soil Erosion Demonstration

Challenges and New Joys

Our goal is to take this training to Northern Nigeria where the population is predominantly Muslim and English is not their first language.

PANAMA

Marlene Guevara | Foundations for Farming Latin America

Key Highlights

This past March, Crown in Panama, working alongside the Rotary International Club, brought vital Stewardship of the Land training to the Ngäbe-Buglé community of Llano Ñopo. We are celebrating the positive impact of this event, which empowered 50 individuals with principles designed to change their lives.

RWANDA

Blaise Mashavu | Bridge2Rwanda

FFF_CA Brief Report_ Season 2025A-2[1].pdf

South Africa

Johan and Frieda Grobler | Rehoboth Foundations for Farming South Africa

Key Highlights

We are excited to share that the Malkerns Station in Eswatini is really showing great progress with the demonstration plots. Since January this year, 82 people have been trained in Foundations for Farming as well as training in the Money Map.

New Joys and Highlights

Some areas are extremely rural and difficult to visit... the joy in it is the knowledge that we have reached people who are desperate to become self-sustainable, especially because they are so far from any shops.

RECENT TESTIMONY

We visited some of the farms of people who did the trainings in Eswatini at Malkerns, and we are really happy to see that they are using what they learned from Foundations for Farming and Money map.

South Africa

Hanneke du Preez | Amazing Graces

Presenter Maq, using the flip-file

Key Highlights

AMAZING GRACES FOOD FARMING CURRICULUM (based on FfF-content): In South Africa there is a growing awareness of the importance of growing your own food. The demand for training is huge. Amazing Graces has a Food Farming curriculum based on FfF covering the following subjects:

Vegetables
Soil and water
Trees
Herbs
Maize
Nutrition
Farming for tomorrow.

We implement these chapter by chapter in eight different communities, ranging from informal settlements to rehabs to rural areas. For the theory, we use mainly our standing flip-files where electricity is not freely available.

New Joys, Challenges and Testimonies

AREAS OF WORK

Orange Farm Informal settlement, Johannesburg area

This is one of the largest informal settlements in South Africa, 45 km south of Johannesburg, with most residents living in galvanized iron shacks and poor services. Average age is 24 years and 35% are unemployed, in other words, hungry, hopeless and bored. We have done the first four chapters of Food Farming here.

Lenasia Informal settlement, Johannesburg-area

In a little enclave some hundreds of illegal immigrants (from Lesotho) are trapped in their circumstances. They do not dare to move out to look for work for fear of being arrested. Food Farming is their only hope for survival.

New Hope Rehab, Pretoria North

Mostly coloured men who are trying to claw their way back to normal life after having been in the grip of drug addiction.

Sunway Rehab, Brits, Northwest Province

We recently started in this Rehab, but the training is giving the guys a new energy for life. So necessary!

Reigerpark Rehab, Boksburg, East Rand

Two guys attended our recent Food Farming Team Leader training on 1 March in Centurion, and they really took on the idea of Food Farming!

But, as you can see, the farming space is very limited.

Rathoke rural area, Mpumlanga Province

Rathoke is a remote rural village in Mpumalanga. We have been going there monthly and they finished the whole course of seven chapters. In the second pic, one of the ‘farmers’ is showing off his maize produce.

Verena village, near Bronkhorstspruit on the R25

Although this group is not big, the enthusiasm is! We recently started to do training there.

Sehlakwane Rural Village, Limpopo Province

Tshepiso Mosotho, a 24-year-old former student who progressed through several of our training courses, is now a trainer himself. He runs the Bathubatse Thusanag Agri-programme training center from his home, where he also practices Foundations for Farming (FfF) principles. Additionally, he led the training initiative at the Middleburg rehab farm.

South Africa

Mac and Elsa van den Berg |Foundations for Farming Stewardship Centre. Eagles Nest Christian School - Polokwane

Key Highlights

Our team of 6 that visited the Foundations for Farming, Champs Conference in Harare, Zimbabwe

Challenges and New Joys

As a team, we were encouraged at the 2025 Champs Conference by hearing and seeing fellow believers from different countries and continents sharing and exalting Jesus,the King of Kings. We are serving Adonai, El Shaddai, Yahweh, Elohim..God the Creator.

PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING

Our Foundations for Farming Team at Eagles Nest Christian School, Polokwane, South Africa is so blessed to be part of a dedicated group of fellow believers in the family of Foundations for Farming globally - sharing Jesus with communities.

UGANDA

Jonathan Musota | Father Heart Farming Foundation

Key Highlights

Father Heart Farming Foundation has experienced significant progress this month. We were privileged to host Darryl and William from Zimbabwe, whose visit was instrumental in raising our standards. They introduced us to the Crown Money Map, a challenging yet insightful lesson that broadened our understanding of financial management. Their expertise also guided the redesign of our garden, and we are already seeing positive changes taking root. The principles of Father Heart Farming are truly effective; since implementation, I have personally experienced God's abundance. Furthermore, those we have taught consistently testify to a remarkable transformation in their financial lives, often reporting a doubling of their income after applying these principles.

New Joys and Challenges

Both a joy and challenge would be that we are needing to build some housing for our students!

Training

Graduates

To Standard

On Time - Thriving Produce

Without Waste - Abundant Harvest

With Joy

UNITED KINGDOM

Nick and Anna Heasman | Well Watered Garden - UK

Key Highlights

Following the last newsletter, we've been busy establishing our FfF Station at Kirkland Hall, marked by our first training in March.

Planting the well watered garden

Teaching

Composting

Recent Testimonies

One participant said “I now realise it is not out of my reach to farm God’s way…I received encouragement to trust Jesus and faithfully do my part”.

Another said “the whole ethos of the course was edifying and inspiring…the nature and content of this course is healing”.

Challenges and New Joys

Our biggest challenge is getting word out about the Well Watered Garden Training in the UK.

Our greatest joy is seeing how the Well-Watered Garden training changes peoples’ lives.

Other joys include waiting for the goats to kid!

United States

Noah Sanders | Redeeming the Dirt

Key Highlights

The Sanders family has had a wonderful year so far. We started off the year busy butchering several hogs and a cow to fill our freezer. Such a blessing to have an abundance of home-grown meat! God enabled us to finish in time for the arrival of our new daughter, Meredith Rose Sanders, in February. Since then, we have been adjusting to our new family schedule and getting the gardens planted for the season. I (Noah) have been busy investing in developing some online forms of farm training and mentorship that has proved fruitful. We have also continued providing training and consulting to a local after-school regenerative agriculture gardening program and were able to speak about that project at the Tuskegee Farmers Conference. In April we were blessed to be able to teach at the Homestead Conference in Waco, Texas, sharing about composting, Brian's story, and Foundations for Farming. We have also been doing some more interviews on faith and farming through our Redeeming the Dirt Podcast.

Noah speaking at the Homestead Conference

Homestead Conference, Waco, TX

Local after-school regenerative agriculture gardening program

Our local church's Well Watered Garden

Zambia

Ben Frampton | Foundations for Farming Zambia

FFF Zambia Champs Conference 2025

Key Highlights

Mkushi Celebrations Days

We thank God for the continued growth we see in our village farmer groups. Many farmers have increased the number of plots of maize and groundnuts they are growing, and quite a few are leaning in to the power of cover crops, specifically sunn hemp. These were some of the testimonies shared at our “Celebration Days” —joyous events where we gather together and praise God for what He is doing. This March, we welcomed over 600 people at our Centre of Excellence for food, tours and sharing. Even more encouraging are the handful of Celebration Days being held, as we write this, in villages all around us, as farmers encourage each other in faithful stewardship and God-glorifying farming.

Inspire Zambia Conference

In the week after Easter we gathered as ministries using FfF for our annual conference called Inspire Zambia. We had the privilege of hosting about 120 people from 20 different ministries covering 9 out of 10 provinces in Zambia to learn from God how to ‘Engage the Church’ in Zambia to teach His principles of Stewardship. We so grateful for the special times of worship, teaching and fellowship together. We were blessed to have Brian and Cath with us and help send the Frampton’s out from Zambia into a new mission for them as a family to the North East of England.

Ben, Cat and the children

A note from Ben...

It was a great time together at the Inspire Zambia conference and it has been a wonderful journey with FfF!

Cat and I will always be grateful and cherish the many homes and families we have been welcomed into over the many years. A special mention to Brian and Cath and Johann and Rheta who took in a very young looking couple 15 years ago! We left our family in the UK but found a very special family in Africa. We hope we can be a family to many where we are going in the UK.

Anything good we have been able to accomplish we give thanks to God for and those that helped us and guided us. We have been blessed with an amazing team in Mkushi and it’s been such a joy to do life and ministry with our dear friends Dan and Mary. Please keep them in your prayers as they lead the Mkushi team into a new season. Our theme for the conference was ‘engaging the church’ and I sense God was calling us deeper into making disciples, which is so much on Dan and Mary’s heart (as well as the many wonderful fff champions in Zambia) it will be exciting to see what the next chapter holds ☺ we hope to share some of the talks in due course. Boet’s was really great! And Matthew from Sowers of Hope in Rwanda got us all thinking along new lines on engaging the church in agri faith ministry and we are trusting the Church will in time lead the way in Zambia. Please pray for our dear friend Peter de Wet as he takes up the role of guiding FfF partnerships on the national level.

A big thank you to our African father and mother, Brian and Cath for your sacrifice to make the long tiring journey up to be with us and encourage us. You once again set the loving example of service until the end which we are all Inspired by. THANK YOU for everything. Love Ben and Cat … the journey continues…

ZIMBABWE

Darryl and Hazel Edwards | Foundations for Farming Zimbabwe

Praising Jesus for a great year at Clouds End!

Key Highlights

In February we hosted our first IWH Community group of the year from Chiweshe. This was a youthful group of participants from an area where tobacco farming is dominant. Seven of the group gave their lives to The Lord Jesus and followed through by being baptized at the end of the training.

The Team 2025

Champs 2025 Soil Demonstration

In the first week of March we held our Annual Champions Conference entitled "Kingdom Innovations". Here our guest speakers were: Josiah Palusky from Renew World Outreach, who highlighted the use of their Lightstream devices being used by FfF as training aides for the Agricultural Extension officers being trained in the Government program funded by UK Aid; Dr Freddie Kalaitzis from Aspia Space explained how satellite imagery is being incorporated in a tool to assist small scale farmers to predict yields for marketing purposes; Eric Vaders represented the Green Lightning team and showed us how they have been able to simulate the reactions created in a thunderstorm to create a nitrogen rich solution which can be used to fertilize crops and Tony Rinaudo joined us on a virtual link to share on Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR). Craig Hill and his South African Family Foundations International team, Leon Hartwig and Adam Marais also blessed us with their insights and teachings. Our time was completed by the numerous testimonies of how The Lord has been working in many of the lives of the farmers and communities who have been trained by FfF.

Champs 2025 Tour of Plots Session

This was followed by our International Indepth training which was attended by 26 delegates from Canada, DRC, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, The Netherlands, Uganda, USA, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe.

March 2025 Indepth Training Participants after composting.

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