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Floating gardens: growing food on flooded land
Started Nov. 20, 2009
Medicinal properties of Aloe vera, Stalked Bulbine etc
Started Sep. 25, 2009
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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- Do you have your own website, blog, forum or social network?
- http://muswellhillbilly.wordpress.com/
- what is your website/blog/forum/social network for?
- A gardening blog written on behalf of education/conservation charity GardenAfrica.
- Anything else? What's your story? Give us a bit of background about yourself (if you like).
- 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.
I'm also an intenet geek and love the idea of information being freely shared among people all over the world.
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Vitya the Recycling Man
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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 othe… 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 sever… 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 A… 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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License concern... 2 Replies
This is hard to categorize as seeking a solution - but I am seeking a response so I'll post here. Jeremy, I love that you've tagged the site with a Creative Commons license. I do strongly suggest no…
Tagged: knowledge-sharing, licenses
Started by Chris Watkins in Solution Wanted.... Last reply by Chris Watkins Dec. 23, 2009.
Floating gardens: growing food on flooded land
This solution was created by Practical Action, adapting to climate change in Bangladesh http://practicalaction.org/food-produc of the land in the Gaibandha district of Bangladesh is covered by water…
Tagged: floating, gardens, hunger, agriculture, flood
Started by Carol Horne in Solution Offered... Nov. 20, 2009.
Can Straw bales be used externally to retrofit an existing building? 5 Replies
I want to use straw bales to retrofit an existing brick building (small detatched cottage in London) in order to improve its insulation. Is this possible and does it have any implications re intersti…
Tagged: insulation, bale, straw, building
Started by carolyn ingle in Solution Wanted.... Last reply by carolyn ingle Oct. 23, 2009.
UK too reliant on imported food? 3 Replies
51% of British food is imported. This means our food supply is not secure (although of course Britain's food supply is nowhere near as vulnerable as that of developing countries). There are also envi…
Started by Carol Horne in Solution Wanted.... Last reply by Job S. Ebenezer Oct. 23, 2009.
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