Today the youth and the children's of the village celebrated colourful festival "Holy" at vadgam village.

I just comeback to vadgam from Anand after completed 11month SAP training...now will resume the weekly class room activity in village very soon.here in vadgam is a vacation period in school for children's.weekly class activity for village children's start very soon after vacation period.

Regards,

Nitin

Dear All,

Read new article "Under Ground Water Research for Vadgam Agriculture".on village site www.vadgam.com

Regards,

Nitin

I am posting this in hope that you find it useful.

GARDENS/MINI-FARMS NETWORK
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Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Haití, England,
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Workshops in organic, no-till, permanent-bed gardening, mini-farming, livestock mini-farming,
using drip or DIY bucket drip irrigation, worldwide, in English & Español

Self-Supported Schools

They should be established everywhere. Education is the solution to poverty.

A CD holds 650 MB. The Bible is 1.4 MB. Therefore, a CD holds 464 copies of the Bible. A DVD holds 3,000 copies of the Bible. A dual layer DVD holds 6,000 Bibles. DVDs should be loaded with educational materials: books, videos, etc. I have a DVD on farming for US50¢. 2 DVDs, mailer, postage, cost US$3.50 to mail anywhere in the world. A traveler can deliver them. Just imagine what would happen if every school in the bush of Africa, the jungles of Latin America and the mountains of Asia had a DVD library to use for teaching and training. The internet is not necessary and is expensive in some areas. Those without electricity use a computer, internally converted, to use 12 v. directly from a battery with a solar charger [email for instructions]. This opens up a whole new way to teach. Thousands of DVDs are available and many are free.

Where the internet is available, the cost may be prohibitive. Use HTTrack website copier [free] to download websites into computers and on to DVDs.

Class schedule: Classes can meet mornings, afternoons, evenings and/or weekends. With organic, no-till farming students only plant and harvest crops; no plowing, no cultivating. Classes could be dismissed during those two short periods.

teachamantofish.org.uk “Our organization helps kids from poor families across Africa, Asia and South America to get quality education. We work with schools to create new sources of income. Students get ‘hands-on’ involve-ment and learn practical skills and entrepreneurship”. teachamantofish.org.uk/school-box

 The Learning Farm, Indonesia. thelearningfarm.com
 S. F. Agriculture School, fundacionparaguaya.org.py/index.php?id=lo-que-hacemos. [English]
 eldeber.com.bo/extra/2008-01-27/nota.php?id=080128000444 Colonia Pirai high school, Bolivia
 http://schoolatblairgrocery.blogspot.com [USA]
 auronepal.net [India]
 http://arapalgoatfarm.shutterfly.com [self-supporting students]
 Organic, no-till gardening/farming using only a machete/maize cutter [minifarms]
 peas.org.uk/
 Cityfarmer.org
 P4p.org
 Khanacademy.org [free courses online. Could be downloaded on to DVDs and used anywhere]
 School Project - financially self-sustaining. Ron Stiff ron@montebelloacademy.org
 cd3wd.com [5 DVDs free to developing countries] Information for doing just about anything.

Micro-credit - farmsinternational.org/farms-sept11nl-what_is_wrong_with_microcredit.pdf [how to do it]

Vocational Schools & High Schools: They should be established and self-sustaining. Students train & work so may need more time to graduate.

Suggestions for training and profit-making:

1. mini-farming [organic, no-till, hand tools only]
2. new crops [spaghetti squash, endamame soybeans, baby maize]
3. farm value-added products
4. livestock mini-farming [goats, muscovies-insect control, meat, eggs]
5. bucket drip irrigation kits
6. sweet sorghum
7. broom maize [sorghum]
8. tree nursery
9. vegetable starter nursery
10. seed production
11. hoop houses
12. farmer’s market
13. retail store/market stall [school, farm, arts/crafts products]
14. pedal/hand thresher
15. nut sheller
16. pedal/hand pump
17. DVD/book selling
18. burn/sell dvds
19. auto mechanics
20. welding shop
21. carpenter shop
22. electrician
23. village movie theater -computer
24. computer time rental
25. cell phone time rental
26. composting business
27. vermicomposting
28. compost toilets
29. sewing
30. weaving
31. clothes washer/hand
32. pot-in-pot food coolers
33. papyrus sanitary napkins
34. coffee roasting
35. maize nuts
36. soy nuts
37. ground nut butter
38. jerky [dried meat]
39. soap making
40. soil/cement brick
41. soil/cement roof tiles
42. fish production
43. arts and crafts
44. recycling business
45. darfurstoves.org
46. water bottle roof lights
47. LED solar lights
48. solar water heaters
49. solar food driers
50. solar cookers
51. solar heating
52. solar water purifier
53. solar lighting [schools, homes]
54. solar electric panels
55. sandals from old tires
56. pedal/hand grinder
57. maize tortilla making
58. bicycle mechanic
59. bicycle trailer making
60. bicycle electric generator
61. bicycle ambulance
62. bicycle delivery service
63. B rope water pump
64. B nut sheller
65. B mill/maize thresher
66. B drum thresher
67. B coffee depulper
68. B clothes washer
69. B sales trailer: food, drinks, farm products, etc.
70. pedicab service
71. trike cargo service
72. BT cargo service
73. BT mobile shop
74. BT delivery service
75. BT taxis [2- 4 adults; 3-6 kids]

These can be used by families to increase income.

Ken Hargesheimer, minifarms@gmail.com

Pl.click on Following Link to View photographs of Village Holi Festival-2012

https://picasaweb.google.com/106213219340001219251/HoliCelebration2012?n...

I wish every school had a copy of this.

GARDENS/MINI-FARMS NETWORK
A CD holds 1.4 MB. Therefore, a CD holds 464 copies of the Bible [or similar book]. A DVD holds 3,000 copies of the Bible. A dual layer DVD holds 6,000 copies of the Bibles. A Video DVD holds 10 hours of videos and a dual layer DVD holds 20 hours of videos. Education is the only solution to poverty and population growth.

Imagine what would happen if every school, village, library, etc in the bush of Africa, the jungles of Latin America and the mountains of Asia had a used computer and DVD library. The internet is not necessary and is too expensive for billions of people. People can study for hours on a computer using DVDs with little or no cost. Thousands of DVDs are available on hundreds of subjects and many are free. I have farming DVDs. Whatever a person wants to learn is available on a DVD. Use them to train students, teachers, farmers, medical people, religious leaders, those needing vocational skills, etc. HHTwebsite copier [free] can be used to download websites into a computer from the internet. Use CDburner XP [free] to burn to a DVD.

2B cannot read [400M in India. 2M in the USA] but they can be educated using video/audio DVDs.

Two projects have proven that women farmers who were taught new farming techniques using DVDs made greater application on their farms than those who were taught by lectures.

All computers operate internally on 12v. Those without electricity use a computer, internally altered, to operate directly from a 12v battery with a solar charger [email for instructions]. A pedal/powered generator can be used. This opens up a whole new way to teach. Use 12v lighting at night.

Income generation: Show movies for a fee. Rent time to study on DVDs.

Ken Hargesheimer, minifarms@gmail.com

 mos.org/eie/
 curriki.org [K-12]
 world-virtual-school.com
 e-learningforkids.org
 inacol.org
 edublogs.org
 hippocampus.org/
 nrocmath.org
 oercommons.org
 Khanacademy.org [free, multi-languages]
 icr.org/essentials Creation science studies.
 olpcnews.com [laptops for children] http://one.laptop.org/about/mission Plug an external player into the USB port on the XO.