Cycle Updates · Akuase, Eastern Region
Started 15 Apr 2026
Our second onion cycle, and our first at a new site in Akuase, Eastern Region — planted in phases, with harvest now underway on the earlier-planted ground and the rest of the plot still in the field.
Plot cleared and beds prepared ahead of nursery sowing.
First batch of seedlings sown into the nursery; a second batch followed a couple of weeks later.
Seedlings moved from the nursery beds out onto the main field, in phases rather than all at once.
Harvest has begun on the earlier-planted phase, with the later-planted phase still growing in the field.
Cycle 2 is our second onion cycle overall and our first at a new site in Akuase, in the Eastern Region. Land preparation, nursery, and transplanting onto the main field all tracked reasonably close to the original schedule, and — unlike Cycle 1 at Pwalugu — the plot was planted in phases rather than all at once, which is now letting harvest and re-planting overlap instead of the whole cycle moving in lockstep.
Harvest is now underway on the phase that went in first, while the later-planted portion is still in the field and growing. It’s a deliberate structural change from Cycle 1, and one of the clearest carry-overs from what that first season taught us: phasing the planting spreads out labour and risk, and it means we’re not forced into a single, rushed harvest window under pressure from the weather.
This cycle has also doubled as a trial of how well we can track day-to-day field activity, building directly on the lessons from Cycle 1. Watering in particular has been the hardest thing to log consistently from the ground, and closing that gap is shaping how we set up data collection for the next cycle — including the new one already starting back at Pwalugu.
