The Grow Box project

[Lystra Kochin]

Anyways,.. I am leaving soon, but since no one around here wants it, I figure I will post my review of the Grow Box project... I iz not in Min of Agri

So Objective referred to 'land poor'. and 'safe' food.

Urban people are not just land poor-

plants need water and sun and some tending to grow well.

Tall buildings limit the amount of sun light hours plants get.

And water is a perennial problem in Trinidad.

So lettuce and patchoi - which are water intensive plants... and time as well..

Go to site...

Where is the sun, morning afternoon.

Is there spouting for rain water collection
Can we do a gray water storage tank from the kitchen?

Do these people have time... time leave house, time get home.

Are the buildings so tall as to create a wind tunnel, where is the prevailing wind coming from.

If we are doing this - not bagasse, compost - ie organic disposal... worms and some start up soil.

Nature is a cycle... are you willing to give persons in programme flexitime to spend say 5-9am in the garden...

Also no mention of mulch.

Maybe this could be a credit to supply people who receive the dietary grant.

Use existing institutions for training.

Use PLAR - Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition programme to include agricultural knowledge.. tree crops, grafting, compost.

Introduce a train the trainers course at Agricultural training (Centeno) ie instead of free short courses, make a certificate - to be a trainer in the grow box programme possible with say six courses...

And rope in either 4H or Yapa, so that there is constant knowledge transferral.

Make another ladder for ECIAF admission.

Why do we always start from scratch and build no bridges between what exists and evaluate programmes on an individual basis.

Whatever, my ideas, die with me.. and I am going...

Que sera sera

[Falcon]

are you speaking in DOS?

[Solachica]

Are you dying?

Wht ladder to ECIAF?

[sylvestter]

thanks for sharing