Today was fun. We began building stands and putting pipes and drip lines together.
(I need to open a Home Depot here!)
The basic idea behind drip irrigation is that you store water in a tank where it won't evaporate in the hot African sun, and then thru carefully placed tubes along the ground you drip the water... slowly... drop by drop... precisely at each plant.
It was invented by a smart guy somewhere in the Middle East, and it's literally transforming agriculture in the hottest, dryest parts of the globe.
The soil here is amazingly rich. It's just dry. As my water-engineer brother-in-law said after coming here last August, "This soil is perfect for agriculture if you just add water."
Now, with this demonstration acre, they'll learn how.
Comments