The biggest slum in the world, Kibera, is within the city limits of Kenya’s capital Nairobi. While people there would love to grow their own food, there just isn’t the land available.

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Step forward Solidarités International, a group which is teaching locals how to grow their own garden, in a sack. It’s basically, low-tech vertical gardening, as teacher Sam Walari explains to host Marnie Chesterton.

Read more - The RUAF Foundation - A Garden in a Sack: Experiences in Kibera, Nairobi.

Watch a video about The Kenya Sack Garden Project.

Taken from the latest edition of Earth Beat - Back to the Land.