Lessons My Garden Teaches Me
Over the last few months my host organization and I have been working diligently on developing a new organic gardening training center. Funded with the help of European partners and the labors of community members, this training center will one day teach intensive, organic gardening methods to interested gardeners. Its features are many: a water tower pumps water into an irrigation system of sprinklers and drip tubes; two composting stations facilitate the monthly churning of decaying organic matter into rich soil amendment; and three tanks house 100 catfish each that munch on moringa leaves and furnish untold gallons of nutrient-rich crap water that, when joined with fresh bovine poop, make for excellent fertilizer. Beyond the rows of irrigated vegetables in the northwest corner of the site sits a small garden promoting a long list of Peace Corps organic gardening methods. Here is grown kale, spinach, garlic, okra, cucumber, carrots, moringa, lemongrass, papaya, pineapple