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Floating gardens: growing food on flooded land
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Medicinal properties of Aloe vera, Stalked Bulbine etc
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UK too reliant on imported food?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Job S. Ebenezer Oct 23, 2009.
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The Eden Project: Evolution of a Cornish clay pit at The Eden Project, Cornwall
October 29, 2009 at 6pm to April 30, 2010 at 7pm
Eminent artist Anthony Eyton RA exhibits 10 years of work at EdenWorld-renowned artist Anthony Eyton has opened an exhibition of his work charting the construction and evolution of the Eden Project on April 10. The exhibition, entitled Evolution of a Cornish Clay Pit, features more than 30 works ranging from the russet and grey vista of the empty pit, through the cranes, workmen and gargantuan scaffolds of the Big Build period to scenes from Eden as we know it now.Royal Academician Anthony has…See More
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Job S. Ebenezer replied to Carol Horne's discussion 'UK too reliant on imported food?'
One solution for this problem is to promote urban agriculture using urban waste land such as, root tops, brown fields, unused portion of a parking lot, and many other places where we can grow vegetables and fruits in containers. I have been using…
The Good Life: 100 Years of Growing Your Own
October 7, 2009 from 10am to 5pmTackling inequality and climate change – can we do both?
October 8, 2009 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm
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- Do you have your own website, blog, forum or social network?
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- what is your website/blog/forum/social network for?
- A gardening blog written on behalf of education/conservation charity GardenAfrica.
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- I'm a nature-loving foodie, interested in conservation and international development. I have a personal interest in South Africa.
I write a gardening blog for a fantastic charity called GardenAfrica. (GardenAfrica trains people in Sub Saharan Africa to plant vegetable gardens to feed their families. A 100sq metre garden can feed a family of 5 for a year).
We grow vegetables in our London garden - tomatoes, asparagus, herbs, lettuce, peppers, leeks, garlic, onions, beans, peas, squash, cucumber, raspberries, apples, figs, strawberries, parsnips and cabbage.
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Wonderbag: insulated material container that can cook food without fuel
The Wonderbag is the brainchild of Natural Balance, Natural Balance is a South Africa based organisation supporting community based projects.
The Natural Balance Wonderbag Project is cutting fuel consumption and creating employment in South Africa, as well as numerous other benefits described on their website (see link below).
The Wonderbag is an insulated container made up of two poly-cotton bags filled with polystyrene… Continue
Posted on September 13, 2009 at 7:11pm — 1 Comment
Raised vegetable beds made from glass bottles
We have built raised beds in our garden using empty wine bottles. (Any large glass bottles you can find will do).
How:
Just dig a small trench and sink the bottles upside down to just below the bottom of the necks. You will need a lot of bottles!
There are several advantages to planting vegetables in raised beds:
* You can control the soil that goes in each bed (raised beds allow a wider… Continue
Posted on September 9, 2009 at 3:00pm
Pots watered by gravity
Auto Pots are plant driven systems that automatically provide water and nutrients to your plant as required using only gravity (no pumps!!). Very simply, you pot your plant up in a suitable growing medium, such as Coco, Coco/Soil (50/50) Mix or Perlite and then connect the AutoPak to a reservoir of your choosing. The SmartValve contained within each AutoPot governs the level of water fed to each plant and actually replicates the ideal… Continue
Posted on May 14, 2009 at 12:30pm
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- At 1:25pm on September 25, 2009,
Derrick Opio Ukumu said… - Thanks Carol, i would like to find some good/proper use of waste polyethene bags and i hope i get something. I saw something in Mali. I intend to go over there and see how it is being done, then i can come back to kampala, Uganda and do the same. We have these plastics thrown all over the place. Shalom!
- At 3:58pm on May 13, 2009,
ivili said… - Hey Carrie, hello and thank you. Please go and explore, have fun, join some groups, make some constructive comments and let me know your thoughts. xx
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