Growing More Than Vegetables: CHICS Students Practice Organic Gardening
Kollo Beatrice | May 15, 2026
In the forests of Southwest Cameroon, where communities have long depended on hunting and forest resources, six young CHICS scholars are learning a different way to put food on the table.
As part of the 2025/26 programme, the students are getting hands-on training in organic gardening,maize, groundnut and pepper and other vegetables that can be grown right in their communities and surrounding the Korup region.
Armed with machetes, hoes and seeds, the students are building a foundation for sustainable livelihoods that don't put pressure on the forest.
The goal goes beyond nutrition. We're equipping young people with skills that reduce dependency on forest resources and that they can bring back home as multipliers of change.
Community-based conservation starts with education. And sometimes, it starts with a seed.
The maize they grow will go directly into feeding the chickens at the CHICS poultry.
It's the kind of thinking the programme is built around. Nothing wasted. Everything connected. The CHICS scholars are showing that what's needed can often be grown right here.
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