Sandy is a volunteer at our model farm in Laguna. He goes round collecting leftover vegetables for our vermicomposting project. Vermicomposting is the use of a worm called the African night crawler to produce compost. The worm eats waste material and churns out good compost. At our model farm we are are trying out different combinations of waste material to find out what produces the best compost.
Sandy has started his own backyard vegetable garden. Among the vegetables he is growing are bittergourds, sweet peppers, eggplants, and ladies’ fingers. The plan that he has been following is to plant several kinds of vegetables simultaneously but in small quantities. Then the planting is repeated roughly every month, so that there is a continuous harvest of each kind of vegetable.
Sandy works in the Talahiban area. He will soon be teaching the villagers there how to start their own backyard vegetable gardens using this plan.
Goducate hopes that the residents of Talahiban will soon be able to put their own veg@table.