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Setting up the Ecofarm |
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A village in Kampong Spoe province, 55 km from Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia |
Getting to sunshine house | ||
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The entrance to the orphanage |
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| The home for 40 Khmer children | Part of the Sunshine house family! | ||
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| The ecofarm site | Starting to set up the facilities!! | ||
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| The pig pen | The field assistant's house | ||
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| The electricity generator house | Starting to sink the well | ||
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| General view of the activities | The pig pen | ||
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| Sinking the water well | Carrying water to help the drilling process | ||
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| Door of field assistant house | Window of field assistant house | ||
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| Preparing the feeder for the fattening pen | Pen for the sow | ||
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| Pig pen, farm manage house and office | The water well # 1!! 30 m | ||
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| Farm manager house and office almost finished | Field assistant house | ||
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| View of the houses, Kitchen and toilet | Preparing to make the floor | ||
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| Roof with "imperata" grass leaves | The builder and UTA farm manager discussing the next steps | ||
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| The water well and water tank (2500 lit) finished!! | The generator installed!! | ||
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| Finally we got water!! The two well are ready! | Now! Start to plan the planting of crops! | ||
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| Start the goat pen/earthworms (front view) | Goat pen and place for rabbit pen (back view) | ||
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| The field staff house finished | The office almost organized!! | ||
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| Floor of goat pen and trench for earthworms | Lateral view of the goat pen! | ||
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| The feeder for piglets | The feeders for fattening pigs | ||
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| The drinker installed for the fattening pigs | |||
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| The field staff start to work at the ecofarm (Mr Sophea and Mrs Aun, a family from the village) | The cassava seed !! | ||
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| The trench for the biodigester | Starting to involve the oldest children in the activities | ||
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| Finally we got the pigs (18 fattening) | and two gilts!! | ||
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| Some of the oldest children help to set up the biodigester! | The biodigester on the 19th May/02. It is already producing gas!! | ||
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| The storage house!! | Cassava starts to grow!! | ||
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| The chicken pen!! | Soil planted with water spinach!! | ||
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| The biodigester starts to produce effluent to fertilize the crops!! | Duckweed ponds being prepared!! | ||
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| The duck pond almost ready to fence!! | The trench ready to set up the small biodigester linked to the toilets!! | ||
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| Moringa planted along the fence | Moringa tree for animal feed | ||
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| Biogas reservoir in the house!! Now we have biogas for cooking!! | |||
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| General view of the kitchen | Biogas flame!! | ||
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| Toilets from houses and office connected to a small plastic biodigester. Waste water from kitchen, showers goes directly to the effluent tank and from there is pump for irrigation | |||
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| Goats and rabbit pen finished, ready to move the animals in!! | Chicken pen under construction!! | ||
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| Setup for larva production using as substrate the feed residues and kitchen residues | Place to set up the incubator!! | ||
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| Pens for hens!! | Pens for fattening!! | ||
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| Cassava still growing!! | |||
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| General view of the farm | Duckweed ponds!! | ||
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| Water spinach is growing!! | The water spinach is growing! | ||
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| Gas production and effluent for the crops | The rabbit pen is ready. | ||
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| The semi scavenging chicken pen is finished. | Hen's nest | ||
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| Place to produce larva from the organic residues from kitchen, rabbit pen and pig pen. (the boxes are outside of the pen) | The larva goes up and fall inside pvc pipe and then in the pen as a protein supplement for the chickens | ||
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| The fattening chicken pen. | House's toilets connected to small plastic biodigesters and all the waste water from kitchen and bathroom going directly to the effluent pit to be pumped. | ||
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| n.The arrival of the animals on the 7th June | An special day for the children | ||
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| A pregnant goat | Having a look of the goats | ||
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| Cassava leaves and roots silage will be used as a feed for the goats while the forage trees grow | The goats liked it | ||
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| The chickens (75) | A lot of interest in the chickens | ||
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| Organizing them in the pens | |||
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| n.The children started to put the kitchen residue so larva started to be produced | Supplementing the chickens eating the larva | ||
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| The small children were also happy and participating in the day the animals arrived | |||
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| The rabbits | Water spinach is growing fast. | ||
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| The pigs still growing | Every morning the container are full of larva | ||
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| Moringa and trichantera trees were planted in the scavenging area of the chicken pen | Wisna, the oldest boy in the group is collaborating in feeding the pigs! | ||
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| Harvesting water spinach | Washing the water spinach for the rabbits. | ||
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| Feeding water spinach to the rabbits | Growing earthworms under the goat pen | ||
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| Watering the water spinach! | |||
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establishment and of the crops, the soil was a rice field so the fertility
is very low, we hope we can change the soil trough the recycling of the
animal manure. Very soon the children will start to eat pork produced at the ecofarm! |
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| Page prepared and updated by
Lylian Rodríguez. (22nd June 2002) Picture by Lylian Rodríguez |
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| lylianr@utafoundation.org |  |
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| For more
information contact: Lesley Hewett Awareness Cambodia lesberyl@iinet.net.au Pushpa Nabham Awareness Cambodia awarecam@camnet.com.kh Lylian Rodríguez UTA Foundation lylianr@utafoundation.org |
