By Patrick Chung | Project Leader
.A virtual volunteer with experience working on school gardens in the US city of Detroit has selected a list of crops suitable for the Cameroon climate and soil that do will one or more of the following:
Three of the crops -- basil, onions, and garlic -- will be used in all gardens to reduce pests, but the children will choose the 4 - 6 they want to grow from the rest of the list. At the start of the school year, we will work with the teachers in each school to have the kids play a simple game to choose the crops to plant in their garden. Each child will pick one of the possible crops to learn about and represent. After all the children have had an opportunity to review the material about the characteristics, requirements, and benefits of their crops, they will form teams by joining with the other children (crops) they would like to make up their garden. They can then use a simple mobile phone app that one of our volunteers is developing to enter their team members (crop choices) to see how each crop choice, individually and in combination with the others, will affect the amount of work their garden will require, how much food and nutrition it will provide, and whether it will help them make money to support the gardens in future years by producing seeds for banking or surplus for sale.
You can receive a free download of our app with the 12 fruits and vegetables we are offering the schools when you donate $25; for a $250 donation, we will research and program the app for 6 fruits or vegetable of your own choosing.
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