Faith in the fields

What if the secret to feeding your family, saving your land, and transforming your community was already growing in your backyard? In this episode, host Ivy Prosper takes us to Overland Missions Base Camp in Choma, Zambia, where pastor and base camp director Caristo Chipwaya is combining gospel teachings with organic farming to help rural families grow more with less.Through a program called Farming God's Way, Caristo and his team are showing local residents how to use what nature has already provided, from mulch to compost, to produce consistent harvests without spending on hybrid seeds or chemical fertilizer. Through deeply personal stories, we hear from farmers like Pedag Siazilundu, who went from working 12-hour days to having time to rest and watch football; Maggie Lutenta, whose faith journey transformed not only her fields but her marriage; Iness Munkomobwe, a single mother who survived Zambia's worst drought in a generation; and Rosemary Mwanda, whose husband went from forbidding her to own land to being the first to remind her not to miss a meeting. This episode is hosted by Ivy Prosper, produced by student producer Raquel Medina, and edited by John McGill. Translations were done by Margaret Kabuswe, Innes Phiri, Crispin Bwalya, and Jane Shira. This episode was produced by Farm Radio International, thanks to funding from the Government of Canada. More about Nature Answers: Rural Stories from a Changing Planet at farmradio.org/natureanswersThis is a Farm Radio International podcast produced thanks to funding from the Government of Canada.