EDN Issue 144 - Now Available

In this issue:

• Introducing 100-Fold Gardens: Wicking Beds for High-Density Planting of Vegetables Where Water is Scarce
• Echoes from our Netwok: Literacy and Agriculture and Termite Harvesting in Ghana
• From ECHO's Seed Bank: Earthbag Houses for Storing Seeds
• Books, Web Sites, and Other Resources: Restoring the Soil, Second Edition Book Release

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Introducing 100-Fold Gardens
Wicking Beds for High-Density Planting of Vegetables Where Water is Scarce

Dawn Berkelaar and Tim Motis

Excerpt:

Network member Lance Edwards works in Zimbabwe. He told us about using and promoting inexpensive, water-conserving planting beds that he calls 100-fold gardens. These are a type of “wicking bed”; they are lined with plastic so that water pools at the bottom in a reservoir. From there, water moves up towards the plants’ rooting zone. 100-fold gardens are a way to maximize vegetable production on raised beds.

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