What is up everyone?

Welcome back to our final episode this week with Joel Carston, the pioneer of the

Straw Vale Gardening method. So we've talked quite a bit about the method and I thought maybe we could turn outwards this episode Joel and talk a little bit about it. I mean when you think about the method like you said it's accessible it's relatively inexpensive and so

that kind of leads me to think yes what about the applications in areas where

you can't go to Home Depot and stock up on, you know, fancy and expensive

gear for the garden.

What about, you know, third world countries where you're trying to grow to actually survive?

And it seems like you're finding a lot of success there.

Yeah, you know, places in the world where gardening is not a hobby is what I always tell people. It's where, you know, it's the, it's the, it's the, either you have food to eat or you don't so it's an important thing and people

people don't like to have somebody come in and make big changes to what's

working for them if it is working you know they don't like

to have people come in and mess with that because that's their food supply you know it's

very important but we we started our first one of our first big international projects was in the country of Cambodia

and if your listeners know anything about Cambodia it's you know it's a very poor country and about 75% of the country is still agriculture based so there's a lot of

farming but they're small farms you know two and a half three acres is about the biggest farm

and usually their main crop is rice. So they're good farmers.

You know, they grow rice for six, seven months a year and they harvest a couple times and they put some

rice in storage and they actually have enough surplus nowadays because of good fertilizers and good hybrids and things that the West has brought to them, that they have enough to sell so they can actually get cash income for part of their crop because all of them now have

cell phones so they need to pay their cell phone bills but that's really the only bill they have because they don't

have electricity and I'm plumbing or anything like that so So they have no other utility bills. I suppose they pay a small tax to their government, but that's about it.

So here's the problem, Kevin. After the rice is harvested, the rains come, the monsoons, and it rains all day every day, right?

So they got three six feet of water that covers their whole country.

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