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GREEN HANDS
GREEN HANDS
FARMING GOD'S WAY
Nicholas Munyororo
In the New Year 2020, we shall
start teaching simple practical
God-given aspects of growing
food. This method of growing
food is known as Farming
God’s way. In order to better
understand the whole picture
of it I thought it prudent to give
a history of how Farming God’s
Way came to be.
Farming God’s Way was
designed before man was on
the face of the earth, when
God put His laws in place to
govern His creation and their
inter-relations with one another.
Farming God’s Way is not just a
technology but a well-balanced
biblical, management and
technological solution for the
agricultural domain, to equip the
poor to come out of poverty, with
what God has put in their hands
and to reveal the fullness of His
promised abundant life. But
more than that, for me, Farming
God’s Way is the route back to
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clean, healthy, nutrient rich food, how to overcome the difficulties
that is free from toxic chemicals, he was encountering and God
which will provide Afrika with began to speak to him about
new hope. how He manages creation,
In today’s world, Farming God’s where He never tills or inverts
Way has a proven track record the soil and where He never
of success going back 35 years destroys or buries the decaying
to 1984 when God first revealed plant material on the surface.
it to Brian Oldreive of Zimbabwe. God also spoke clearly of the
Brian became manager of stewardship and excellence
Hinton Estate, near Bindura in farmers are called to adopt, by
the north east of Zimbabwe, in caring for and managing the
October 1982. Over the next land in a way that would ensure
2 years he observed that they that farmlands could be passed
were experiencing high land on as an inheritance from one
preparation costs, fertility and generation to another and bring
yield declines, tremendous soil glory to God. Start small and be
erosion and water losses and the faithful with little.
costs of inputs were increasing A decision was made to
annually. Hinton Estate was in implement Farming God’s
a precarious financial situation Way with high management
and had not made a profit for standards, on a small tract
many years. In his desperation of land, in order to both
and concern that the farm was gain experience and have a
on its way to bankruptcy, he manageable trial. The initial
sought the Lord’s counsel. implementation was done
Brian asked God to teach him using only 2 ha of land. The
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