Old Chris Marten Had A Farm, Ee Ay Ee Ay Oh

So since the rainy season has finally started in Moshi we started planting the seeds for the farm in the back of juvy today, which ended up being more exasperating then I first expected.
My plans for the farm were that we would make rows of mounds in which we would plant the seeds and they would be planted in a pattern of corn, beans, corn, beans. This planting pattern, to the best of my knowledge, makes it so that the beans put nitrogen into the soil as the corn removes it and, in addition, the bean stalks can grow up the corn stalks, making it so that we don't have to put in anything for the beans to grow on. I told this to the people at juvy, Mr. Gumbo, Brother Toll, and Agnes, but they all brushed it away saying that we would plant everything seperate from each other. The thing that irritated me the most was how they seemed to treat me like I didn't know what I was doing and so my planting advice was irrelivent, obviously I'm not an experienced farmer but these people keep on asking me for help and in that moment it felt like they didn't want me to actually help.
And then there was the actual planting of the seeds. Once we finally got the kids out to work on the feild they just started making rows of holes in the ground with their hoes, no measurement or anything. As I said I was under the impression of us making rows of mounds, so that the water could collect in the space between the mounds and this better irrigate the feild. Once again, I'm not an expericened farmer, but I felt like this was some worth while knowledge that they were just brushing aside.
After planting the whole area designated for the corn, I was ready to move on to planting the peanuts and beans, but they said that I'd have to wait for tomorrow, yet another moment of exasperation for me. I go back to teaching the children in the classroom, but today a few of them weren't listening to anything I was saying. So in summary today was a day I felt contiually disrespected. Agnes ecspecially made me feel disrespected, when I told her how I wanted to plant the seeds today she laughed at me and said no. It's really hard to keep the enthusiasm to want to help people when they don't seem to appreciate it or want to accept it, but this could just be a bad day, we shall see.