Tanzania gardens
Gardening is growing in Tanzania Tanzania is blessed with fertile land so saving up to buy a farm is a popular investment here. However, you don’t need a farm to start growing your own fruits and vegetables, a small patch of garden is enough. As well as helping put fresh food on your table, gardening has been proved to be good for your health, both physical and mental. Here Tanzanian home gardeners reveal the joy of watching things grow and we reveal some tips on how to get started with your own garden.
Sadick Sausi Mbeya
Any visitor to the Untengule Coffee Lodge – a charming restaurant with rooms set amid plantations producing worldfamous gourmet beans on the slopes of the Mbeya ranges – will be well aware of the greenfingered prowess of Sadick Sausi. As Utengule’s head gardener, he leads a team in maintaining the hotel’s fruit and flame tree-filled
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grounds, which provide a lush foreground to spectacular views across the East African Rift Valley. Sausi is a walking advert for the health benefits of gardening. In his 50s, but looking a good couple of decades younger, he is also the hotel’s go-to guide for hikes to the top of Mount Mbeya – good luck keeping up with him – and walks the 14km round trip commute from his village Ihombe each day. The region gets plenty of
Garden plot Sadick looking over his garden in Ihombe
Medicinal garden Bibi Zaituni in her garden, Mwananyamala, Dar
sunshine and rain so agriculture dominates the economy. Like many of his neighbours, Sausi
