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Garden on Your Rooftop
Are you making the best possible use of the space above your head? I’m talking about the space on top of your house – the rooftop! It’s possible to harvest lots of fresh vegetables from a rooftop garden and deliver them directly to your kitchen table. Go up to your rooftop or out to your…
Grow Vegetable Vines in Small Spaces
Fresh vegetables can be costly to buy at the market. But you can grow them yourself at home. Even if you live in the city or the village and don’t have much space, you can still plant vegetables that grow on vines. A huge variety of these grow in the tropics: cucumbers, gourds, pumpkins, climbing…
You and your environment
No. 1: Plastics harm the environment Did you know that most plastic is not biodegradable? That means that it does not decompose naturally and turn into another material without polluting the environment. There are 46 different types of plastics, and technologies to recycle them are not well developed. There have been experiments to produce something…
Use the Sun to Cook your Food
One way people sometimes describe a really hot day is to say, “It’s so hot, you could fry an egg on the ground.” Well, how about cooking vegetables in a box in the sun? You can do this using the rays from the sun. This is called cooking with solar energy. Cooking with solar energy…
Raising Guinea Pigs for Meat or Money
When you think of guinea pigs you might think of cute, cuddly little pets. But for the highland people of South America, and people in parts of Africa and Asia, guinea pigs mean extra food and income. Maybe you would like to try raising guinea pigs. First of all, the meat is delicious. You can…
Choosing a Fishpond Site
A fishpond is an enclosed body of water used to raise fish. It can be made of concrete or earth and it has both an inlet and an outlet to allow water to flow through. Here are some things to consider when you select a site for a fishpond. Water supply is the most important…
Integrated pest management
No. 1: What is a pest? What is a pest? A pest is a creature that damages crops. And one of the most important things a farmer can learn is that not all insects are pests. Many insects eat other insects. They are called beneficial or friendly insects, because they help control the insects that…
Friends and Enemies of Aphids
Cast: Narrator, Farmer 1, Farmer 2. Sound effects: Farm homestead atmosphere. Narrator: In this program, two hard-working farmers discuss a problem they share aphids. As we follow their conversation, we discover that Farmer 1 seems to have no easy solution to the aphid problem while for Farmer 2 aphids are a problem of the past and…
Preserve Fruit by Making Jam
Isn’t it great to eat and sell fresh fruit right from the tree? But unless some of the fruit is processed and stored properly, half of it will rot on the ground or in the market. Processing fruit is a good way to store some of its nutrients. It is also a good way to…
No Pit Latrine Produces Fertilizer
A new type of latrine improves health by breaking the cycle of fecal contamination and the spread of diseases such as diarrhea, hepatitis, typhoid, and parasitic infections. It also provides farmers with fertilizer for their crops. The high quality organic fertilizer produced by the new latrine reduces farmers’ costs and helps to avoid the long…