Abundance of Aloe

The three small aloe plants that I brought back from Kenya three years ago have grown much bigger and multiplied exponentially.


Aloe plants don't multiply via seeds; new baby plants shoot up from the roots of existing plants.

My aloe bed has gotten very crowded during the past months so I decided to transplant some of the plants.

I asked my friend and "right hand woman" Agau to help me do this. We worked on it for a few hours this past Saturday morning.

All of the plants in the picture above came out of a small section of the main bed.


We planted some of the plants but still had a lot left over. So we decided that Agau would do some teaching Sunday after church about using aloe gel to treat burns and then offer interested women to come to my house and get some aloe plants to take home.


Aloe gel is wonderful for burns, and unfortunately burns are common here, particularly among small children, since cooking is done on fires at ground level.

These are some of the ladies who came after church to get plants. We would love to see aloe growing in many homes so that when someone gets burned, the gel would be readily available. Aloe is also helpful for minor cuts and wounds and skin irritations.