By Jeremy Gwao from Tavuli News, Solomon Islands
As a youngster Frank Tabai loved learning about gardening and growing traditional food crops in Solomon Islands and now through a farm school that he established he’s hoping more young people will head in that direction.
Training and working as a medical pathology technician at the Sydney Adventist Hospital, Mr Tabai decided after 16-years that he would embark on a career change.
“I had a vision that I had to teach the traditional knowledge … and teach our students from grade one, grade two, grade three, how to grow vegetables traditionally,”
Mr Tabai had strong memories of gardening as a young person, something that stuck with him into his adult life.
“We start doing farming because our parents taught us even though we do not yet even go to school,” Mr Tabai said.
“Our parents used to work in garden, planting taro and planting banana and yam, these local traditional food crops.”
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