Last week we all went to this amazing place called ECHO farm. ECHO is a non-profit organization whose vision is "Honoring God through Sustainable Hunger Solutions."It was a fascinated tour of all farm working related stuff you can ever imagine. we all got to taste tropical fruits and even leaves as we explored the rain forest. The farm is laid out so that we walked through a fruit tree arboretum and found ourselves walking in a huge circular pattern that carried us through areas set up to duplicate the different types of growing places throughout the world. There were hot humid lowlands, tropical monsoon, semi-arid tropics and tropical rain forest. On the outer edges were set ups for a community garden, herb garden and a duck pond.
One demonstration that capture my attention the most was how ECHO provides information on ways to bring solar power to outlying areas where electricity is not available. For example a solar oven can cook meals or heat water to boiling and that makes it clean enough to drink. Other solar panels dried fruit and meat for storage to be eaten later.
There were vegetables growing in everything imaginable such as tires, wading pools and boxes. Irrigation was by drip methods or misting. There was even a garden using discarded aluminum drinking cans for potting and watering the crop. I was amazed at how much food could be raised in such a small area. I really admired and appreciate the people that worked together to create this awesome place. I've always been a city person and never been in a farm before, actually this was my first time and learned a lot from it. 
