Battambang, KH – Garden challenged by water shortage – 28 Feb 2014

GP is now a team member of the vegetable garden shop with Rom.  They are a team of two who make compost one week and build a garden the next week.  All GP family work together to maintain a very productive vegetable garden so that they can feed themselves and sell surplus vegetables.  Their garden is truly wonderful.  They have just harvested 40Kg of salad lettuce from two 1 meter x 8 meter raised beds, and sold them to a vegetable broker for US$0.25 per kg to earn them a total of US$10.

The family has been spraying their vegetables with a natural pesticide, which the garden shop produces, to protect them from a small pest that eats them.  There has also been the challenge of a lack of water.  Despite these challenges they have been growing many  vegetables.