There are several steps to making a seeds bomb (or seedball). The first step is to mix the seed species in order to obtain a good specific diversity for each field:
Then all the ingredients are brought together: clay from the lowlands, charcoal which must first be ground into dust, ash which will act as an insecticide and water to make a paste out of it all, which you then roll in your hand. In some families, everyone works at it: father, mother and children.
In this respect, yes, we too ask ourselves: is this child exploitation? Should we forbid these families to work together? Of course, the children have to go to school …but what happens if there is no school within 10 kilometres? There are many difficult questions that need to be answered with sensitivity.
After the coating comes the drying stage, always impressive in the villages as our seeds bomb are found everywhere:
And finally, each family can proudly stand in front of its bag of 10,000 bombs of mixed seeds, ready to be scattered on the plots made available by the field families:
See you soon on the fields to sow the seedballs!
