TALEKOI - The heavy rain that suddenly lashed the village that afternoon did not dampen the enthusiasm of the women and children of Talekoi villages to come for the training in making fertilizers and organic gardening.
Before the rains arrived, the village children helped our team collect various organic waste, such as leaves, grass clippings, coconut husks, and kitchen waste. Most of those wastes are often left untreated in landfills, even though these materials can be a humus-rich soil amendment known as compost. That's why the Ranu Welum team conducted this training to teach the village community how to make organic waste compost.
In this training, Rizky Marselyno and Sumarni Laman, the trainers, first explained the types of organic waste, namely brown waste, which is rich in carbon elements, and green waste, which is rich in nitrogen compounds. Then, we piled the brown organic waste and green waste together in a used bucket to make compost. Composting includes a balanced "browns mix" and "greens mix."
We also taught the mothers how to grow vegetables by making planting media from organic waste. With smiles and joking laughter, they arranged various planting media in polybags to plant ginger, water spinach and chilies.
"This training is very interesting. For the first time, I learned that the garbage that I usually throw away, such as leaves and coir, can be used to make fertilizer and planting media", expressed Ineh Rangga, after she attended the organic fertilizer training.
This training is one of our activities to help empower the villagers of Talekoi to achieve food security and improve the local economy. Inspired by this training, the village officials in Talekoi will adopt this program to support their 'Climate Care village' agenda.
