Plastic bottle gardening in Iraq (Dr. Andrew ADAM-BRADFORD)
January 11, 2010Growing plants in plastic bottles has a number of remarkable advantages, among others :
- Significant saving of water
- Less negative effects of soil factors
- Easier control on plant growth
- Keeping plastic out of the environment
Interested people go to my blog http://containergardening.wordpress.com, where a number of photos show how performing this technique can be. That was certainly recognized by Dr. Andy ADAM-BRADFORD, when writing :
“I am using some photos from your site on plastic-bottle
gardening, during the delivery of a session tomorrow on food
production in refugee camps. The workshop, funded by UNHCR, is in Iraq
and for a NGO managing a camp on the Syria border.
Your examples are great resources for teaching and illustration.
Many thanks, sir.
Best wishes,
Andy.”
Dr. Andrew Adam-Bradford Ph.D. is a Geographer, Researcher and Independent Development Practitioner specialising in natural resource management, urban and peri-urban agriculture, disaster risk reduction and political ecology.
Meeting human need and environmental sustainability by means of design, innovation, adaptation and appropriate natural resource management
http://www.shef.ac.uk/environmentdivision/gyo
Grow Your Own: health risks and benefits of producing and consuming your own food in urban areas
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It gives me a happy feeling knowing that colleagues appreciate my work. Now, let me hope that those responsible for improvement of living conditions in refugee camps (UNHCR, WFP, Red Cross, …) will give it a try and see how health problems (lack of fresh food, vitamins, children’s deficiencies …) can easily be solved by applying container gardening in very hostile environments, like the desert. Seeing is believing !
