![]() ![]() The width and height of the keyhole garden makes it easy to water and maintain by hand without bending or reaching too much. The basket gets buried as well, but the top remains accessible so food scraps, plant trimmings and other organic material can be thrown in and compost will leech back into the bed. The bottom of the bed is lined with organic material, sticks, leaves, cardboard, etc. The garden’s design is basically a circular raised bed made about 6 feet across with a wedge cut out to allow you to reach a basket at the center of the bed. ![]() ![]() The backstory on the keyhole garden is that it was developed in the 1990s by researchers in Lesotho, an arid mountain kingdom surrounded by South Africa where they were trying to find a way for remote populations with poor soil, little water and desert-like conditions to build efficient, and sustainable, but low tech, food sources. (What Costco had to do with this, I don’t know.) Intrigued, I dropped the brochure and hopped over to the interwebs to find out what was up with these keyhole gardens. ![]() So I was sitting around late last winter reading the week’s Costco circular when I ran across an article about the success of something called a “keyhole garden” in remote villages of Africa. ![]()
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