Preparing for the Farmer's Expo

Here Nan is putting corn in a plastic jerry can. The screen box behind here is where she puts the corn first to clean out any chafe or any of the cob that is left, as well as rocks, sticks or grass. We will show how to save corn, or any other grain, for long periods of time. We fill the plastic can, put a candle in it and light it then put the lid on. The candle burns out and burns all the oxygen out and we put wax along the lid to seal it. If any bugs are in the corn they will die without oxygen and no bugs can get in because of the was seal. We showed this at the 2009 Farmer's Expo and have just recently open it to show that the corn is as clean and bug free as the day we sealed it. A mouse tried to get and an wasn't able. Last year a man came by to see us and he said his wife had put her peanuts in it like we showed and it was clean and free of bugs.
Terry will once again be showing the biogas generator. This year is a different version of the two previous years. We plan to do more cooking this year making no bake cookies, and several other things using the biogas.
We leave Kondoa this Thursday, July 28th, for Dodoma, where we will set up and get ready. The Farmer's Expo begins Monday, August 1st and runs through August 8th. Pray for us as we travel on Thursday and for the many opportunities to visit with people and share why we are here.
In the past this has given us many opportunities to "visit" M's. It gives us a good reputation and makes us people who care about the Tanzanians.