My World in a Garden - Sister Walls

An update from the field

It's winter in South Africa, and we are starting to prepare for spring at the end of September, early October. The My World in a Garden vertical vegetable gardens are so important to produce food in small spaces and where there is either a dire shortage of water or a huge excess of water. The gardens also provide the food needed to support the young girls and young women in our GirlStuffPeriod.org programs, as you know, and the continued support of the program is vital in the lives of the people we work alongside and serve.

Word Gets Around

I have been advising on other agricultural and community projects in other parts of the world In Cambodia the vertical gardens are attracting attention for their ability to get the vegetable plants off the ground and under cover. Why is this so important? Well in the monsoon season parts of Asia, including Cambodia, have so much water, the plants drown. the vertical garden concept can enable smallholder Cambodian farmers to grow produce even in the monsoon season, because their crops will be above the flooding they experience each year during a monsoon.

The polar opposite problem our farmers experience in South Africa and yet the same solution. 

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We are grateful for your ongoing support and for all you, as a donor, have already done to create positive change in the Bergnek community, and are always grateful for you our supporters, and especially for those of you who give to the One Brick at a Time project every month. Thank you for your contributions, your messages and for sharing the work we do with the wonderful people of Bergnek. We appreciate you and the people of Bergnek most certainly do too. 

We won't give up on the communities we serve, and we know you won't either!