Permagarden

Today, we started our permagarden learning. One of the main reason I am learning Permagarden is to incite people to use the same technique to grow their vegetables. It also very encouraged for the HIV/AIDS population to have a permagarden since medicinal plants and vegetables are accessible right in their garden. Once they will see me making my own permagarden, they might wonder what the hell I am doing but months later (if I am doing this right) my garden will be more fructuous than anybody else. So this technique should attract people to do the same thing and I will be able to show them how to. So today, we learned how to make an effective compost pile. This compost pile takes 3 months to decompose. Since we are not going to be there in 3 months, we learned another way to prepare the soil ready for planting.

 The whole day we digged and double digged on the soil. It felt great to be on my knees and work on it!!!  We also installed swales to control the water in case of erosion and created berms (walls).  After all that, we planted lemongrass, sweet potatoes. On the side, I took home some aloe Vera root. I am going to water it every day and plant it once I get to my site. I am going to create some great facial masks with that ;)