New Container Garden at Asia Regional Office
09/04/2009 ~
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Phoebe Mbuvi, former ECHO intern and now an intern with the ECHO Asia Regional Office and the Upland Holistic Development Project, taught some of the students about the need for container gardens in poor urban settings as well as how to put one together. Ruth Tshin, another former ECHO intern and now volunteer with the ECHO Asia Regional Office, led another group of students in planting a small perennial vegetable garden along the side of the ECHO Asia Regional Office building.With our tropical temperatures and high humidity, the students soon worked up a good sweat, but their work paid off with the completion of a demonstration garden that many passers-by as well as visitors will be able to explore. As soon as the students were done, a group of policemen came up to ask about the garden and were impressed with our use of local vegetable varieties. Over the next couple of hours we had as least another half dozen people pause to check out the container garden.
The ECHO Asia Regional Office is on the campus of McCormick Hospital, an historic Christian institution in the heart of Chiang Mai. Because the hospital attracts patients from all walks of life, including many from the area's hill tribe communities, the ECHO Asia Regional Office has large numbers of people passing by its front porch, often pausing to see what we are growing and how it is used. With signs in Thai and English, the new container garden and perennial vegetable garden will serve the larger community as a tool promoting sustainable options for urban gardening.
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