By Amy McMillen | Liaison & Program Coordinator
Thanks again to the generous contributions from individual donors in the Global Giving community, this project has moved into Phase 2!
EarthBoxes will now be introduced and tested at two garden sites in Bangalore. One is a school where the after-school Eco Club will care for the large vegetable garden and learn various sustainable growing techniques including the EarthBoxes. The other is at a local NGO that promotes rooftop and terrace gardens throughout Bangalore, Vittal Mallaya Scientific Research Foundation. They have worked in conjunction with our partner AME Foundation to conduct workshops on organic, sustainable gardening techniques that allow people to grow food despite land constraints.
Through these on-site demonstrations we hope to learn more about the use of the EarthBox with local inputs, in a variety of settings with a variety of different types of growers in India. It's is our goal to be able to share some of their stories with you here through the Global Giving site, and through our website www.thegrowingconnection.org. Also, because the students at the school site speak English, we intend to connect them with student growers in the United States so that they can share best practices and learn from each other.
In addition to these two new sites, AME will continue to maintain the rooftop demo garden at their location and to conduct workshops. If you are in Bangalore and want to learn more about the EarthBox or rooftop or terrace gardening in India, please contact them (www.amefound.org).
In the next update, I hope to share with you pictures of the two new demonstration gardens!
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