100 Gardens for 100 Families Initiative

If you were to sit in on an elementary school classroom teaching about the ecosystem of Liberia, you would probably hear the teacher explain, “There are two seasons in Liberia: the wet season and the dry season.”

If you were in that classroom today in early July, you would hear those words as rain pattered consistently upon the roof of your schoolhouse. This might be new information for those schoolchildren, but the members of the 100 Gardens for 100 Families initiative would have been thinking about the coming rains for over six months. Because today, as the clouds appear over West Africa and the rain falls, marks the deadline for all gardens in the country to be planted…

God Provides Before a Food Crisis

The facts were clear.
Russia and Ukraine are significant exporters of staple foods.
They are both global leaders in fertilizer production and export.
The war is disrupting the Ukrainian economy.
Global embargoes are slowing Russian exports.
These factors all point to increased prices of staple foods and fertilizer worldwide.
There were other clear facts.
In order to feed itself, Liberia must import rice from abroad.
When fertilizer prices rise, farmers without the funds choose to farm without it, which dramatically reduces crop yields.

So, prices of imported staple foods are rising at the same time that domestic food production is shrinking…