Permaculture advocate in Zimbabwe - too little/too much rain

So glad to hear an update from you, Rufaro!! And how good that things are going well.

Mai Kumbi surprised me. She sent vegetables again this week. My sister and I harvested a bunch of bananas from our yard, which is adding on to the week's food supply.

The two vendors that I have added to the vendors to help with peanut butter sales are still asking for it, although the sales are still very low. One of the elderly vendors said he does not need any money from us for selling our peanut butter because to him, we are just like his children. I am not sure how to be with him. He keeps on saying I do not know how to accept a miracle. I have stopped insisting on giving him a token of appreciation, but he has left me with an itch to want to work with him in a beneficial way and as usual my brain has ideas swirling, and maybe when the time is right we will do something more than peanut butter selling together. He also gave me hope that we can be humane to each other for no reason at all, so he is definitely someone I want to develop with. As for the upgrade with Apo's business, my idea of growth is gradual and step wise growth. I am not sure if my friend sees it this way, and I did send him an audio, hinting on this, and it's getting to a week with no comment on this. I am afraid to ask him about this because I do not want to push this opportunity away.
I think slow growth can help us look at the business holistically and create an opportunity to grow the business into some really stable investment opportunity as opposed to if this business gets big sudden changes, which could shock the existing operations and risk destroying even what Apo has built for himself so far. I have to communicate this, but I do not know how without appearing as someone who is getting in the way of a big sudden growth.

I put pumkin, bottle guard, and long Thai beans in the keyhole garden from the seeds I received. I will keep on trying them until all conditions are good for me to grow them successfully. We are in winter, which might not be the best season, but I figured, if I have tomatoes growing, I could be lucky. If it doesn't work, I will try again in the summer.

One other random thing is that we used lemons, mint and guava leaves to help my sister fight off a flue which was promising to be a very bad one and she was not too affected by it. Everything we used is from within the yard.