Farmer Brown Family Garden

 Farmer Brown is a household name in the rabbit industry not only Ghana but Africa as a whole. Most of us thought he farms only rabbit, Farmer Brown is a complete Farmer. Read the following work from Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity.

The farmer Brown family garden is about 600m2. and is maintained by Adotei Brown, popularly known as Farmer Brown, his wife, and their two children. The garden is cultivated with peppers intercropped with noni plants, cocoyams, and cassava. Rabbit manure is used to fertilize the soil.

Peppers harvested from the garden are sold on the market and also for home consumption. Excess peppers are sundried for preservation. The cocoyam leaves locally known as kontomire are harvested and used in the preparation of vegetable stew. This stew is usually eaten with the boiled tubers of the cocoyam.

Farmer Brown plans to prepare noni juice from the noni plant when it starts fruiting. The juice will be sold to supplement the family income.

The garden is also used as a training center for teaching pupils from the surrounding schools about gardening.

Area: Amanfro, Ga south municipal, Gt. Accra region

Coordinator

Adotei Brown

Source: Slow Food Foundation For Biodiversity