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Willits, California

Cause Description:
Biointensive mini-farming, a sustainable agricultural system to empower people to transform their lives, reduce world hunger, and make the world a garden of health and abundance. The goal of Biointensive is to recycle all nutrients, grow compost crops to build and maintain a healthy soil, provide food, and integrate fiber crops and trees into the farm. Biointensive projects worldwide (especially in the Third World) have been catalysts of change and improvement in the lives of starving people. Based on John Jeavons' book, "How to Grow More Vegetables (than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine)", which has been translated into seven languages and is used in 110 countries. In Kenya, the Manor House Agricultural Centre has trained 30,000 mini-farmers in th

Type: Environmental
Listed on iGive since: November 1998
iGive members supporting: 12

Website: http://www.ecologyaction.org

Raised through iGive: $20.56 across 2 checks, August 1999 to December 1999.

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