Many of you, I'm sure, have been wondering what I've exactly been doing during training. Technical training is a component of Pre-Service Training. Basically Peace Corps wants all of its volunteers to have the same basic level of understanding of agricultural techniques so that we can all ostensibly extend similar techniques around the country. We learn these techniques or these methods at the Training Center when we come to Thiès and then we practice them at our CBT sites in the gardens that we have. Every CBT site has their own garden, but some people have 4-5 working their garden whereas Jordan and I are just two.
We have been double digging beds, amending the soil, building and maintaining composts, hexagonal spacing, seedling nursery, tree nursery, pre-seed treatments, moringa intensive bed, field crops, mulching, microgardening, mosquito bed net repair, pest ID and management, fruit tree identification, tree identification, agro-ecological design, etc.
We learn these techniques in theory, practice them at the center, and then practice them at our sites! Then the tech team comes to visit us at CBT and checks to make sure that we have done all of these "Training Directed Activities."
Now that I have explained what we do and there are pictures of our garden on my photo site, if you have any questions please comment on this post and I will expand (in the post) what any of these things are!
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