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Category: Amaranth
How Does Amaranth, Ancient Crop of the Aztecs Help People in Africa?
During the past 2 weeks East African people have shared many stories about how grain amaranth flour, and eating the leaves, too—-has helped them enormously! People living with AIDs whose CD-4 counts sat in the low hundreds see their count and their strength rise steadily after getting the anti-retro-viral meds and taking amaranth porridge every…
Gearing Up To Discover What’s Been Happening With Amaranth In East Africa
I’m looking forward to an opportunity in April to evaluate the long-term impacts of World Renew’s promotional work on grain amaranth. Starting in 1998, but especially in the years 2006 and 2007, we made a special effort to teach farmers and mothers how to grow and how to prepare grain amaranth for eating. Love0 Share…
Updates: Evergreen Agriculture (Fertilizer Trees) and Amaranth
In World Renew we are always learning about new ways to use the huge diversity of assets the Lord put into his creation all around the world so that people experience the abundant life the Lord intended for his people. Here are a couple of updates and some pictures of things I’ve been learning about…
Amaranth: A Help in Uganda and a Hit with the Kids in Michigan
The name of the plant is amaranth. It’s a high protein grain that has a wonderful balance of amino acids. Mexican Aztecs and Peruvian Incas probably knew more about growing the grain than we know today—it was that important to them. African women farmers like Dorcas and Casee taught me a lot about growing in…