“Why did you choose to study agric?” It’s a question I have asked many of my students. With a variety of majors to choose from at the SHS level, I often wonder what prompts some students to purse agriculture in a country where farming is viewed as the “poor man’s occupation”. I was particularly curious […]

It was 12:35pm on a Saturday. I stood in front of an almost empty classroom. A meeting had been scheduled for noon that day. I had expected about 15 students to show up, so we could discuss their personal square-meter gardens and I could happily give them the onion and tomato seeds I had brought […]

A congregation of 4-H members were eagerly leading and following me through the small dirt trails of my new village, when I asked them to stop for a second. I stepped toward a group of small children about twenty feet away happily playing under a tree, just to say hello and acknowledge them. As soon […]

For as long as I can remember, my parents have been doing business at Interbank. When my dad told me I had to get an after-school job in high school, I applied and was hired as a part-time teller at our local Interbank branch. I remember loving this job because of the wonderful staff I […]

When I walked up to him and approached the area where the school garden would be, I got a great sense of anxiety when I looked at the large jungle like area in front of me. There was Mr. Phillip with 11 JHS students standing in front of the same jungle of a garden plot […]

In my blog about the Top Ten Things I’ve Learned in Ghana, I mentioned the fact that it takes a long time to get the ball rolling and how frustrating that can be. After spending five months in Ghana, that fact still remains true but I am happy to report that little by little I […]

It felt like I was back in my old classroom watching my Ag Government students persuade their fellow legislators to pass their bill. Or when Jason finally understood how to properly fill the energy levels of chromium to achieve the correct electron configuration. It felt like the time when I watched the four members of […]

In the hustle and bustle of the tro tro station I felt a young man gently grab my arm. At first I brushed it off because at the same time another person was trying to help me find the tro that would get me to my destination. The young man reached again and this time […]

I’m not sure when exactly I decided to be a farmer. Maybe it was the first time I placed a pumpkin seed inside a small film capsule with a wet cotton ball and watched it turn into a plant. Maybe it was from so many hours spent bouncing around in cabs learning from and farming […]

If you’re from a small town, you know what it’s like when something BIG happens in your community. I remember when I was in 6th grade and the Pendleton County boys’ basketball team won Regionals and went to state. The whole town was celebrating! There was a parade, a coloring book made with pictures of […]