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Thu 26 Apr, 2007 08:52 am
a few days ago the lady Diane and I went to see an organization here in albaturkey, a "ministry" if you will, because they manufacture ollas for gardening of which we bought several. during our visit not one word was said about god or jesus or the bible, instead, we were shown around their various micro-enterprises which include a community garden where anyone might come offering garden labor in exchange for foods produced in the garden, they offer tutoring of both native america and hispanic children, ESL classes for both children and adults, computer literacy, various recovery groups, a green house growing and selling bedding plants such as tomatoes, peppers and herbs.
There was no preaching or sermonizing, they gave me the feeling they were actually interested in the beatitudes offered in the jesus sermon on the mount, a refreshing look at what christianity can accomplish when the goal is humanistic rather than proselytizing.
the use of the gardening ollas is to bury the unglazed pots in a large pot or in teh ground next to your plants and fill them with water every few days (as needed) and the water gradually seeps in the soi,d around the roots of the plants;
Interesting for us desert dwellers. Do you cork 'em to keep out them pesky egyptian skeeters?
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dyslexia wrote:a few days ago the lady Diane and I went to see an organization here in albaturkey, a "ministry" if you will, because they manufacture ollas for gardening of which we bought several. during our visit not one word was said about god or jesus or the bible, instead, we were shown around their various micro-enterprises which include a community garden where anyone might come offering garden labor in exchange for foods produced in the garden, they offer tutoring of both native america and hispanic children, ESL classes for both children and adults, computer literacy, various recovery groups, a green house growing and selling bedding plants such as tomatoes, peppers and herbs.
There was no preaching or sermonizing, they gave me the feeling they were actually interested in the beatitudes offered in the jesus sermon on the mount, a refreshing look at what christianity can accomplish when the goal is humanistic rather than proselytizing.
envy.
Dys: what sect?
And how big are those ollas? I'm imagining digging the extra hole...in caliche...
Mills75 wrote:Dys: what sect?
And how big are those ollas? I'm imagining digging the extra hole...in caliche...
they make about 7 different sizes from about 7 " diameter to about 12", yes I understand about caliche, I would dig the hole about twice the size needed ( 14' to 24 ' wide) and backfill with potting soil plus some fertilizer (slow release like ozmacote, milorganite or some of the other granular slow release types)
According to their
website the sizes range from 1 cup to 3 quarts.
good research mesquite, i intentionally left out their url because i am not advertising. I was just impressed.
I was just curious about the use of ollas. Not much research involved other than entering "ollas for gardening" into Gooogle. The very first hit is East Central Ministries, and the second is a University of Arizona newsletter that East Central Ministries borrowed their write up from (word for word from pg 5).
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