Author: Clayton

A full 12 hour day of traveling crammed into a dirty, smelly, scary bus gets you from Jinja to Katunguru just outside of the Queen Elizabeth National Park gates on the eastern slopes of the Rwenzori Mountains providing the division between The Congo and Uganda. Driving to the town, you cross into national park reserved…Continue readingSafari Adventure in Queen Elizabeth National Park

For the past 5 weeks, I’ve been visiting a cooperative garden just north of Jinja.  A group of 160 HIV positive Ugandans come to learn about and grow vegetables not native to Ugandan diets.  They grow many different types of lettuce, carrots, okra, onion, tomatoes, just to name a few, instead of bananas, cassava, beans,…Continue readingCommunity Gardening in Jinja, Uganda

For all you city dwelling, paper pushers out there, this garden is just about due for a harvest. You don’t need a green thumb to know when to eat a tomato or pick a head of cabbage. Check out the pictures from today and you’ll start to drool all over that $150 Apple wireless keyboard.…Continue readingGarden Update at the Ngobi House

My all time favorite activity in Uganda is tending to our small garden at the Ngobi House.  TQ jokes that I am too much of a hippie for loving my garden so much.  I like getting my hands dirty picking weeds, having a sweat going with the hoe and shovel, and eating from the garden…Continue readingBuilding a Sustainable Home Garden in Uganda

For all of the movies and documentaries focusing on the majestic beauty of Africa showcasing elephants and lions and wildebeests, the true landscape of Africa is steeped in blood and tears. For the first time, I see beyond the glossy pictures and videos of the DVD box set. Beyond the tourist’s eye, into how many…Continue readingNot Planet Earth: Life in Northern Uganda

Plunging head first into the mighty White Nile might seem like a stupid idea if you are hundreds of feet above. Thankfully we are young and stupid aaaaannnddd also strapped to a bungee cord. First Eric. Then Natasha. And finally myself. I partially blacked out when he gave the command to jump so I can…Continue readingBungee Jumping Over the Nile River