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Dear all

We have just been made aware there has been a technical fault with the blogsite and it hasn't been allowing all of you to post your comments. We do apologise for this. 

We have now sorted this out and everyone should now be able to post comments on each update.

We can then pass these comments on to the team. 

Once again, apologies for this technical hitch and we look forward to hearing from you over the rest of the trip!

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All at Team Inspire 

Day 15: And relax..

Today we finished our second beehive fence. Josiah was delighted that it was finished, he wished us well and hoped that we would  come back and visit in the future. We hope he can now have successful crops and can live in peace 

with the elephants.  

Tonight we had an early dinner and are having a relaxing night watching a film together.

Day 14: Second fence- done!

Today 14 farmers from Northern Kenya came to visit the research centre to learn how to build beehives fences. Teaching the ladies how to make the roofs was lots of fun, they were all really friendly and chatty. 

The farmer, Josiah, and his wife Margaret are really happy to have a beehive fence.  2/4 of their children are school age and they can only afford to send one of them to school so they are hoping that with the money they'll make from their honey they'll be able to afford to send the other one. 

Morgan and Laura made us an amazing dinner - veggie burgers, wedges and naan bread - yum, yum, yum!

Day 13: Elephants!

Last night while we were coming back from honey harvesting we saw an elephant on the road! We only saw it for about 5 seconds before it disappeared. Luckily we found the next morning that the herd hadn't done much damage to the farms.

Today we finished digging the holes and thatching the rooves at Josia's farm. Victoria was orange from all of the dirt; we're continually impressed with how dirty she manages to get!

This evening we had a group of farmers from Mount Kenya come down to camp to learn about the project. A group of us took them honey collecting which they all enjoyed :) Tomorrow they'll be joining us on the farm for the final push to finish our second fence!!

Day 12: Back to work

Day 12 and the hard work continues. We are onto building our second beehive fence from scratch. The plans for the permaulture garden are going well and theres so much honey processing we can hardly keep up. Its been a long day and a couple of our team are going out for honey harvest this evening too! No rest for the wicked!

Day 11: Voi Lodge

We had a day off today so we spent the day at Voi Lodge. 

We saw more elephants than we could count, family groups were coming and going all day to drink and wallow at the watering hole. 

We also saw zebras, baboons, warthogs and a big herd of buffalo. A blissful day...

Day 9 and 10: Two blogs in one!

Day 9:

Today the team split up, Vic went to the permaculture garden to develop ideas on how to grow  the most in a small and confined area. 

The garden will be used to show farmers with beehive fences how to utilise their limited space. 

Whilst the rest of the team went to beehive fence farms to repair old fences and have dank tea. 

In the evening some of the team went to honey harvest, so far luckily still none of the team have been stung. #BeeHiveBants

Day 10:

Started our Saturday helping to paint a murel of the world at the local school and de-weeding their garden. 

We then had downtime all afternoon where we went into Voi and had burgers and icecream for a late lunch. 

Back at camp we all enjoyed a collection of games such as Ultimate frisbee, Ninja and a variety of card games as the sun set behind Sagalla hill. We're all looking forward to a great day of rest tomorrow though.

P.S. Happy 21st Birthday to Doug!!