I used the drip irrigation system to grow sustainable local foods at the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana between 2004 and 2006 and also facilitated the use the system at the YouthGrow program in the City of Worcester at the Regional Environmental Council.

1. Worcester State College
Fall, 2009
Worcester Environmental Basics
Paper Topic: YouthGrow Organic Garden Program
Oral Topic: Drip Irrigation Systems for Urban
Gardens
Source: Worcester State College

2. Drip Irrigation Systems for Urban Gardens
“Growing organic vegetables where they cannot be grown.”- Richard Chapin
Source: RESPECT Ghana’s Agricultural Project (2005)Buduburam Refugee Camp-Ghana

3. Bucket Kit Drip Irrigation Systems
The Hippo Drip Irrigation System
Simple bucket kit System

4. What is Drip Irrigation System
• Method of irrigation that allows water to slowly drip directly to the
root systems of plants either to the surface of the soil or to the root
zone through a system of valves, tubes or pipe, and emitters.
• Modern drip irrigation started in Afghanistan in 1866 when
researchers used clay pots to experiment irrigation.
• It was introduced in the US in 1960 for the cultivation of potted plants.

5. Parts of Drip Irrigation System
• Chaplin Watermatics,
http://www.chapindrip.com/products/Products.php
• http://www.chapinlivingwaters.org/
• http://www.chapinlivingwaters.org/bucket%20kit%20gardening.pdf

6. Project in Ghana

24. A Look at YOUTH GROW:
Regional Environment Council (REC)

36. On-Farm Training

39. Resources
• Chapin Living Waters Foundation: http://www.chapinlivingwaters.org/