ECHO

They say it right on their website "ECHO does not teach people how to farm. Rather to make farmers more effective at producing crops under hard conditions." ECHO helps so many people with their studies and their teachings on growing food in harsh conditions.

For example, finding cheap ways to make methane gases to make fires so they can make a meal. They take a barrel and fill it half with human excrement and half with water. This makes a methane gas that can eventually start a fire. This saves so many people from having to travel so many miles to find proper sticks to make fires to food their meals.

These techniques are not only help feed people, but they are teaching people how to live sustainably. So not only are they feeding people. they are feeding people the right way.

What was most interesting to me was their ideas for the urban farmer. So many of us live surrounded by concrete it is almost impossible to farm. But ECHO has found some neat tricks for farming on your rooftop, using above all things tires. It is these unique, creative, and necessary thoughts that give us a ray of hope in the world of sustainability. It is possible, it is attainable. We just need the will and the desire to accomplish our goals.