Tour on Bololand Sustainable Community Senegal - Part 1

Rural life

Welcome to BoloLand

Bololand - Well drill by percussion

Facing millet crop

Lady Kasse is the local coordinator of Bolo developments. She surprises us with a generous donation to set up a fence. Love you Mama Africa

Local Transport 

Skylight ceiling room :)

Community ground

Single building on the property - Bolo wind turbine

Acacia Tree is an ancient tree that acts as natural fertilizer. Crop around grows stronger
and with more nutrients. Many acacia on Bololand

Village house with thatched "Cases"

Colorful native weed 

Young Palm trees - a cousin of Coconut tree

Enjoying a break with on site roosted peanuts and Senegalese green tea and mint "Ataya"

First "Ataya" on arrival at  Dakar

Magical Moon At Bolo - Photos Nov 3

Enjoy the view - much love

Millet Harvest at Bolo

In rural Senegal, Millet is the most consumed cereal. Today is the first day of the Muslim year. Happy new year!!! A delicious meal is prepared for this celebration based on millet. We make couscous (Senegalese) out of millet and prepared a sauce with different flavors depending on the family tradition and preferences. I enjoyed the special couscous for the muslim year-end yesterday night. We feel blessed with the extreme kindness and hospitality of the community and family around. Bolo is expanding rapidly thanks to the local network. Namaste

 

Just harvested Millet

 

 Bolo Millet and camping area

 

Millet Harvesting



 Millet Harvesting

 

 

Attilio, Bolo permaculturist exploring ancient method of harvesting mono crop millet

 

 

 

Much love 



Bolo Lovable Loo Design

Stepping into Sustainable living one step at the time

Bolo initiated a simple, effective and easy to reproduce compost toilet. Bolo owns now 2 eco friendly and comfortable lovable Loo bringing us closer to positive (not only zero) ecological foot print. Having a permaculture designer on the Bololand from the beginning is such a blessing for Bolo. Thanks Attilio!

We journey to the city of Diourbel and clean the floor of a timber man to collect sew dust which is used in the Lovable Loo for a good composting. Sew dust contains carbon which works perfectly with nitrogen in composting and acts as odor neutralizer. I hope I gave the right explanation I got from the Permaculture specialist. Lol!! My apologies otherwise..

 

 

Much love from this ancient and loving land of Bolo <3