Sack Gardens

HopeBuilding reports on a welcome new twist in gardening:

The project involves planting vegetable seedlings on the sides of earth filled sacks that are placed on rooftops or doorsteps. Each family receives one to three sacks filled with earth and 6,000 families are now cropping tomatoes, onions, kales or spinach. One single sack can contain 50 seedlings of kales or spinach and 20 tomato plants."With this project, nobody, especially among the womenfolk, has any excuse to be idle," says Agnes Ndalo, one of the beneficiaries. "The traditional housewife who would spend hours on end in a neighbour's house in fruitless banter is no longer here. Women are busy tending their sack gardens, replacing dead seedlings or watering them."

via AllAfrica