This drought-hardy bean lives for a year or more and bears as the rains favor it. People like to eat the seeds when they are green and still a bit tender or after they are fully dried. They mix them with rice and some oil and spices or make a sauce with them and pour it over rice.

We also gave them some higher-vitamin sweet manioc (root crop) given to us by World Vision several years ago. This variety took several years to multiply at HAFF because it only liked certain soils and because people and pigs have stolen it from our site up the road. Thankfully there was still enough on our fenced main campus to share.

The edible part of manioc grows underground like potatoes but the stalks are what are planted.

Please pray God’s protection over the planting of this season’s improved sorghum and congo beans on the other property and for the opening up of new land here at HAFF to keep reproducing manioc. We have many requests for these more productive and drought tolerant crops. As the Christian farmers in these groups are faithful to keep sharing some of these special seeds with others in their communities, HAFF can share its seed with new communities.