A message from Bruce FIELDS :

Are you familiar with the organization The Growing Connection?

http://www.thegrowingconnection.org/

“The Growing Connection (TGC) is a grassroots project developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) supported by a progressive coalition of private and public sector partners.”

They use, and promote, the official Earthbox in their projects.

Of course, I still think that making your own self-watering container is preferable to buying a commercial product.

Bruce

———————————————————

http://www.thegrowingconnection.org/

WHAT IS THE GROWING CONNECTION?

The Growing Connection (TGC) is a grassroots project developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) supported by a progressive coalition of private and public sector partners.

The Growing Connection links people and cultures in a revolutionary campaign that introduces low-cost water efficient and sustainable food growing innovations hand in hand with access to technology and information via existing and emerging technologies.  It provides a sound educational foundation, and offers hundreds of families, both in America and abroad, a concrete opportunity to earn income and climb out of desperation.  Perhaps most important, The Growing Connection engages people – a network of committed individuals - in an elegant solution to one of man’s fundamental challenges.

How does it work? School gardening programs and community gardens around the world grow vegetables in an EarthBox system. that becomes a common growing platform for all participants. Students grow food, conduct horticultural experiments and share their lessons and experiences with each other using IT connectivity.  Through modern IT installations, The Growing Connection participants in a number of countries are directly linked.  And importantly, they are also connected to sources of vital information and advice on growing food. Those once the most isolated can now grow, learn, and chose their own opportunities and destinies.