The Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters established St. Joseph Clinic and Maternity Home in 1947 in Kwahu Tofo, Ghana. In 2018, the sisters began farming and catering services in addition to the health ministry.
The people of Kwahu Tafo have always known SSpS sisters as nurses and midwives. It is time to use our farming and catering skills to develop society and promote ecological sustainability.
Although farming is not the first choice of our youth for their future profession, if you ask children what they’d like to be in the future, they will answer doctors, nurses, and teachers. But none will say: I want to be a farmer. Today, many young people are being trained in organic farming at St. Joseph’s Farm.
We took up these projects (St. Joseph Farm with 3 thousand poultry of different species, goats, snails, grasscutters, rabbits, fish, organic vegetables and spices; and Sisters Tasty Bites Catering Services) to help our society recognize the value of organic agriculture, as well as to teach our youth how to care for nature, using natural recourses; how to convert poultry and fish waste litter into organic manure; how to reuse that manure as fertilizers for the vegetable farming.
We realize that nowadays, people are eager to use, pollute, and destroy the few resources available. But we want to show that nature is generous to us if we care for it. Having borehole water doesn’t mean that we can use it without limits. That is why we installed an irrigation system on our vegetable farm. It helps us to save water.
Clean water and natural manure are why we successfully promote quality farm products and spices. We supply turmeric and ginger to an international company that produces local spices in Ghana. We received their confirmation that our products are of excellent value.
Sisters Tasty Bites Catering Services supplies nutritious food daily for St. Joseph Clinic and Maternity Home patients. Other customers are schools, restaurants, and individuals from surrounding towns and beyond.
The farm and canteen became a training place for students. We regularly receive students for their internships.
Some time ago, we shared about the beginning of the farm project. It was so simple…it started with three turkeys… We are grateful for achieving so much today in caring for our mother earth and poor people. This mission is about producing organic food and showing that we are responsible for the Earth. Caring for nature is to receive blessings in abundance. This is also an example of a circular economy, as the waste is used for organic manure.
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