Search Results
You are here

Homestead Gardening

Garden Toolkit

Garden Resource Guide

Keyhole Garden Grows Nutrition, Prosperity
Darou Abdulmalik is doing something remarkable with help from something remarkably simple. She is feeding her family of 11 in Sudan with the nutritious vegetables she grows at home in Kulbus, West Darfur—in a 6-foot diameter plot called a keyhole garden.
...

Keyhole Gardens Unlock Healthy Diets
They are such simple things—variations on the type of small vegetable plots many of us have in our own backyards—yet keyhole gardens are having a profound effect on the lives of people in Lesotho, a small nation that's an "island" in the middle of South Africa.
...

Transforming Lives in Ethiopia with Gardens and Savings
Ethiopia is in the midst of its worst drought in 50 years, putting more than 10 million people at risk for starvation. Prolonged drought, erratic rainfall and land degradation are posing challenges that have pushed people to the edge.

New Gardening Techniques Buoy Indonesian Families
Demonstration plots and kitchen gardens offer a sustainable food source for home use and income through sales of surplus produce.

Home gardens support good nutrition: Megha’s Story
With an innovative solution, CRS provides the tools to combat hunger and malnutrition, so communities can become more resilient in a changing climate.

To Consume or to Sell

Niger Youth Program Launches Work Opportunities
The project helps budding entrepreneurs learn skills as they build their own businesses and increase their income.