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Food for Thought: Food Security During Times of Crisis

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Anne Zachry

This is Episode 1 of our Vlog, Food for Thought. This episode is titled, “Food Security During Times of Crisis.” This video discusses the use of an old urban gardening technique, self-watering containers made from 5-gallon buckets, as a means of ensuring food security…

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The basics of self-watering container gardening

Build your own self-watering bucket container *VIDEO*

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Want to save time & clean-up? Would using a GroBucket kit save you money and make self-watering container gardening easier for you than a total DIY version?

Click on the links below to learn more. GroBucket kits come in 3-packs and 10-packs. Provide your own buckets and let the GroBucket kit do the rest of the work.
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