Building towers of recycled bottles and/or pots offers fantastic opportunities to grow fresh food with a minimum of water and fertilizer. One can grow at home, in cities and villages, all kinds of vegetables and herbs. Bottle towers are a wonderful tool to alleviate hunger and malnutrition. They can be build at the lowest cost by any family everywhere on earth, particularly in drylands and deserts.
Convince yourself in 9 minutes and then take the right decision :
Maybe you want to know how to build a bottle tower ? Watch :
Plastic bottles stacked into a bottle tower can be recycled to set up a vertical kitchen garden at home. The bottle towers are used for container gardening of vegetables and herbs. How to build such a tower is shown in different steps.
Still not convinced that one can combat hunger and malnutrition with container gardening ? See how many Filippinos do it (why should people in the Sahel be unable to prepare themselves for the new food crisis to come in the spring ?) :
Different types of containers can be used to grow vegetables and tree saplings at home. Even in the smallest yard a nice family kitchen garden can be set up. Trays, flower pots, cups, crates, storage cabinets, sacks, bottles, tetra pots, in different forms and sizes, it all can be used to grow fresh food in the most adverse conditions of drought and desertification, even in the desert. While saving a lot of irrigation water, one produces a maximum of food. Container gardening is one of the most efficient tools in the combat of hunger and malnutrition. It is rapidly conquering all the continents. ANYONE CAN GROW HIS OWN FOOD.
