Here's a clever idea brought to you all the way from Gideon village in Malawi, where women found a way to grow heaps of healthy greens right beside their front doors. Grace Banda, a 28-year-old mother of four, keeps a line of burlap sack gardens planted with cabbage in front of her house.
To make your own, you'll need a large burlap sack, gravel, a tin can with both ends cut out, potting soil and goat berries. If you're plum out of goat manure, compost works fine, too.
Here's how to do it:
The cylinder of gravel inside the sack helps distribute and drain the water, ensuring that none of the plantings get too wet or too dry.
This week’s article was featured in the May 2013 edition of Heifer International's World Ark Magazine. For more at-home tips and stories of our work around the world, download our free, award-winning tablet World Ark App for iPad or Android!