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Mustachian urban gardener in Uganda
« on: June 20, 2015, 10:55:57 PM »
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/20/sack-farming_n_7606990.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

"Sacks sit side by side along a small corridor that leads to her door. There are also cut one-litre plastic soda bottles hanging at the verandah of the chicken coop and black disused paint cans stand in between the sacks. All are teaming with crops...She has been doing sack farming for 21 years now and is proud to be making a decent living from a venture she did not even invest much money in. 'The sacks I always use are those that have been dumped as waste. And the black soil and gravel stones are also readily available around the neighbourhood,' she says."

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Re: Mustachian urban gardener in Uganda
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2015, 07:20:46 AM »
Awesome, thanks for sharing.

"“This business has been very instrumental in my life. With sack farming I have kept my three children in school. We don’t buy foodstuffs from the market because, much as I sell most of the food crops I produce, there is always enough left for home consumption,” Nakabaale shares."


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Re: Mustachian urban gardener in Uganda
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2015, 10:02:56 AM »
Agreed, this is really neat!

Does anyone who gardens understand what 'sack gardening' actually is? Is each of those planters that's like four feet in diameter a single sack? How does it hold all the weight from the dirt?

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Re: Mustachian urban gardener in Uganda
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2015, 05:17:11 PM »
Really cool.  My assumption is the sack (or sacks, cannot tell if it is one massive one or multiple sown together) is simply a good locally available form of container garden on a big scale - never seen anyone with that large a container!

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Re: Mustachian urban gardener in Uganda
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2015, 10:22:19 PM »
It looks like it might be a huge feed bag or maybe one of those huge sacks of rocks you see at big box hardware stores.

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Re: Mustachian urban gardener in Uganda
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2015, 12:50:19 AM »
I've toured the Jelly Belly factory. Ever seen a one-ton sugar sack?