{"id":3601,"date":"2021-09-24T12:30:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T10:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/2021\/09\/24\/organic-home-garden-project-dambula\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:01:29","slug":"organic-home-garden-project-dambula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/en\/2021\/09\/24\/organic-home-garden-project-dambula\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic home garden project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The home garden project in Dambula and the surrounding area follows the holistic approach of sustainable organic horticulture and is intended to ensure the nutrition of the smallholder families.<\/p>\n<p>There are a large number of villages in remote areas of Sri Lanka whose residents make their living mainly from agriculture. Many families own a small house and a bit of land around it. These small farmers engage in rain-fed cultivation during the rainy season. Their problem is how to deal with the extreme weather conditions: periods of heavy rain alternate with periods of extreme drought.<\/p>\n<p>If the farming families are provided with sustainable knowledge about kitchen gardens, if they receive suitable vegetable seeds and fruit plants, learn to grow seeds themselves and produce their own compost fertilizer and use it effectively, they could be self-sufficient with their food requirements within a very short time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image00089-scaled.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5000 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image00089-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image00089-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image00089-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image00089-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image00089-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image00089-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/schoeck-familien-stiftung.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image00089-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Project no.:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0131-21<\/p>\n<p>Funding country:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>Funding location:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Dambula<\/p>\n<p>Funding year:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2021 &#8211; 2024<\/p>\n<p>Project partner:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/srilankaverein.de\">\u00a0 Sri Lanka Association Hamburg eV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local organization: \u00a0 Mr. Anslem Nanayakkara, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The home garden project in Dambula and the surrounding area follows the holistic approach of sustainable organic horticulture and is intended to ensure the nutrition of the smallholder families. There are a large number of villages in remote areas of Sri Lanka whose residents make their living mainly from agriculture. 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