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ACT2 Teach a man how to farm, you feed him for a lifetime...but...
This is a tricky one. This mission is not as easy as it seems. Crops take time to grow, and there is a science behind farming to make it sustainable.
Also, i'm in a bit of a bind here...because we already have a flourishing garden at our backyard (i'll submit images tomorrow when the sun is up and i can take some pics). It has mangoes, bananas, coconuts, guavas, and other fruits and vegetables that have no english translations!
In addition, we are surrounded by slum areas, where there is no more available patch of land to plant anything. To add to that, you'd rather give them (informal settlers) the fruits of our garden for free since they have nothing to give in return...and at the same time, you don't want them to be dependent on charity.
So what i'm trying to do is somewhat in the line of inventing a way to make it 'easier' for people in your community to share the food they have with others. Of course it is easier to just give the food away, but we need to consider that these resources still have a cost.
So I devised a mechanism wherein you could exchange recyclable materials (bottles, newspaper, etc) for fruits and vegetables. Say for one 500ml PET bottle, you can get three pieces of mango. By doing so, they don't need to have money to get food, you get to educate them about recycling, clean their environment, and not have them rely on pure charity. And lastly, we could exchange those recyclable materials in a nearby recycling plant for a few bucks which we could use to maintain the garden.
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Comment by Michele Baron on April 23, 2011 at 6:50pm
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very cool project. Here is a brief write-up of a gardening project I have used for landless poor people I have known in the places we have lived-- if it helps, too, let me know!!! http://www.changemakers.com/node/99203
good luck with your innovations :)
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Comment by Isidor Cardenas on April 25, 2011 at 4:42pm
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Wow thanks! here in the philippines we actually have something similar called a kariton. One filipino teacher actually used a kariton to teach street children, and he won the CNN hero of the year last 2009
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Oh, interesting! I used it with street children in Dakar, and elsewhere (starting enough long years ago that I don't want to say... I think CNN did exist though) :) I hope lots of garden carts and kariton can become parts of people's food-security and economic-security, and add beauty to their lives, too.
Evoke on!
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Comment by Morag on May 5, 2011 at 2:03pm
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Sounds like a great project to link recycling with food. Good luck
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