Wednesday, January 20, 2010

What Education Really Matters?

A new decade lies ahead of us. As a commitment to my Spiritual orientation, I accepted a challenge to investigate a new form of Agriculture. This we have been busy with here on Trinity for the past 18 months. What is new under the sun with things that have been done for the past thousands of years - producing food? Well, as it is up for personal opinion but it gave me a lot of food for thought.

We now have a thriving new garden setup on the property that makes growing food such fun. It is simple and easy to maintain. It uses little water in it's design and it is totally organic. The process we adopted took into account the problems experienced by local rural population. The design of the gardens were primarily adopted to harness energy, water and natural fertilisers. We are in our third growing season now, and we will continue expanding what we have done, to see if the setup has small commercial benefit.

Over the next few weeks I plan to document this journey we walked to discover something new. Our plan is to start a school for youngsters wanting to learn a vocation - which is to be a good organic gardener. By growing food in a sustainable way - one can supply food to one's family and possibly make some income - a healthy job alternative. All that is lacking is knowledge here in the poor communities of the countryside.

As the system works, we feel that we have a package that can be taught in a few weeks of tuition and practice, something we can offer as appropriate education.

The First Steps