NIAGARA WAREHOUSE of HOPE



Hope for Community Agriculture

The Niagara Warehouse of Hope's Guatemala Irrigation project is now entering its fourth phase. This project involves working with Guatemalan villages and organizations to create community gardens using a "sweating hose irrigation system." This is a simple system in which water is gravity-fed from a raised barrel into a perforated hose embedded in a prepared garden plot. The barrel is filled once a day, from the nearest river or stream, to keep the garden soil moist. These systems allow subsistence farmers to raise fresh produce for their own consumption, with surplus vegetables used for sale or trade. The first three phases of this project involved locating suitable areas for their use, installing the systems, monitoring their use and maintenance, and fixing problems which arose. Now that the systems are up and running, with local interest groups and charities setting up their own systems, our Phase IV will involve a final monitoring with recommendations to the project leader and local users.



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