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Growing Knowledge

A proposed sack-gardening + composting program which combines awareness of food production and waste management with practical skills. This concept extends an earlier inspiration of sack-gardening from Kenya and adds composting + more comprehensive support to the initiative. Lessons would be devised towards sack-gardening projects and also on compost production using basic techniques such as those outlined by the Daily Dump: http://bit.ly/9q0TYo This would create learning around a small-scale food production cycle that requires limited resources and space.


The growing/composting projects could be initiated at schools with the encouragement that students can implement them at home as well – enhancing community adoption of small-scale food production cycles. Once established at schools, produce could also contribute to existing school meal programs or form part of micro-enterprise training for students towards school market-days or community dining events.


A Growing Knowledge Toolkit would be created based on a couple of initial trial runs. This could include photos, diagrams, lesson plans, task-sheets, etc with practical instructions, materials lists, discussion pointers, suggetions for micro-enterprise ventures and so on. Could also include extension lesson plans on plant biology, basic chemistry, climate change, carbon and nitrogen cycles. *The tool-kit would be naturally be easy to understand, colourful and engaging.*


Images from: http://bit.ly/b3XBv0 + Daily Dump
Sack garden process: http://bit.ly/amnggo

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