By Janet Bourque | Project Leader
Bottle Gardens!!! Recycled Soda Bottles + Yummy Worm Compost = Nutritious Vegetables
Problem: Girls who live in poverty in town do not have access to the shared Mayan agriculture land in the mountains. Houses are tiny, filled with large intergenerational families. Town families are under nourished with no land to grow their own food.
Solution: Recycled Bottle Gardens!
Parents and girls learned how to make recycled soda bottles into miniature green houses. Yummy Worm Compost, seedlings and seeds were supplied for the first Bottle Garden last Saturday. This garden was built as a team project with 26 youth. Supplies were sent home with each youth to build home Bottle Gardens. Youth have the responsibility to teach and help their siblings and close neighbors build home family Bottle Gardens. They will help Elders make their Bottle Gardens at a height that they can easily care for. Additional supplies are available.
Hand water sprinklers were made from recycled ketchup bottles. Great for a garden will little access to water.
Your Donations:
Share the idea of Bottle Gardens: Any Where: youth organizations, elders and disabled who are physically unable to manage a garden in the dirt, urban dwellers on a patio or a sun beam by a window.
Need Instructions: The photos tell the story, or contact Janet at janet.aso-ixil@gmail.com
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