Growing!

Construction of the garden has begun!!! There are going to be a couple different elements to this ginormous garden. The front of the garden will be dedicated to keyhole gardens. This is a fairly new idea on how to construct and maintain a garden. The keyhole gardens are built up in the shape of a circle. It is 2 meters in diameter and has a compost hole in the middle; this is where the hole is made. All of the crops can be accessed within arms reach. These gardens are perfect for rural, dry areas because they can be made with everything you find and do not use extra water to maintain the crops. We began clearing the land with shovels and rakes but have since asked the mine that is close to us to borrow one of their machines. If we were to clear this all by hand it would take ages for it to be finished. The school budget has approved the money that is going to be used for the garden and I am working towards approval of my funds. I am super excited to begin this as it means that the nutritional needs are my students will soon be met!!! I will continue updates as they come :) Below are a few pictures from the first day of clearing and marking

The Keyhole gardens are represented by the circles in the picture above. The rest of the area will be used to plant crops that you can not grow in the keyhole gardens.