Welcome!
The Backpack Farm
Agricultural Program (BPF) provides not just farm supplements and training but
a complete 5 phase program ensuring small-scale farmers can increase their
harvests and improve their qualities of life.
Farmers purchase an ergonomic PE/Canvas, reusable
backpack filled with essential agricultural
inputs including certified, drought resistant and indigenous seed
varieties, reduced toxicity pesticides (when required) and irrigation tools.
They also receive training and manual on how best to use the backpack tools. as
well as other skills like non-tillage and water harvesting. Small landholder
farmers are then able to produce as much crop per acre as semi-commercial if not
commercial farms. Farmers grow more food to feed their families, or to sell at
market.
The BPF Program was designed for support farmers working together to create agricultural cooperatives. Through business and agricultural training, farmers are able to combine their efforts to get good value for the crops they choose to sell at market. This helps farmers move beyond subsistence farming; they can use agriculture to improving their quality of life.
As climate change, conflict
and rising food prices leave more and more people in
