book for PDF - John Snow International Europe

IntroductionThis book aims to help householders, schools and communities to growand eat their own healthy, nutritious food using Low Input Gardening(LIG) techniques.In the past people got all of the energy they needed from the sun byusing the products of plants and animals. Livestock provided meat,milk, eggs, manure, transport and power for tilling the soil. Animalswere kept in healthy conditions and would control weeds and pests asthey grazed. People grew many different types of crops together andgathered other food plants, medicines and other products from the wild.People were strong and healthy and there were few problems of pollutionand environmental destruction.These days many people live in cities and towns. We now depend onenergy from fuel such as coal, petrol or diesel for our daily lives. Webuy most things we need from shops instead of making them ourselves.The waste from fuel and chemicals pollute our air, soil and water. Theycan also make us sick.Low Input Gardening is auseful system for growinghealthy, nutritious foodwithout damaging theenvironmental resourceson which we depend.A productive householdgarden established byNew dawn of Hopehome-based-carevolunteers in Mufakose,Harare5