Field to Feast has never wrote and posted in situ , but here goes - I am writing to you from the shores of Lake Kivu , in western Rwanda, a...

A few months ago, my friend Ruth (yes, the Ruth of rooibos chocolate cake and buamba fame), handed me a small, square, well-worn booklet ,...

I ended my last post with a wish that the flicker of hope I saw in the days after the 29 March election would reignite. I was wrong, howeve...

We waited. A week ago today, the citizens of Zimbabwe went to the polls. They emerged proudly displaying their pinkie fingers, stained pink ...

One expression you learn quickly in Zimbabwe – right up there among “ shame ” (said, while shaking one’s head, instead of “too bad”) and “ h...

Corn has been getting a lot of publicity lately. But even before industrial agriculture dug its claws into this versatile cereal and inve...

The number of vendors has increased over the past few months in Harare – shop-side vendors dangling plastic sleeves of tomatoes, potatoes, o...