How To: Grow Food in the Desert

With increasing demand for more regenerative and efficient food systems, a greater focus is being put on the drylands. Did you know one third of the earth's land surface is partially or all desert? An array of strategies, born from indigenous farming practices, are creating growing opportunities in the most arid lands in the world and they are also alive in home gardens.

Today, we get to take a look under the straw bales of Daniel Boissevain's home garden. He’s a passionate grower from Santa Fe, New Mexico and walked us through how he turned barren and sandy desert soil into a garden teeming with worms and rich earth in the heart of the desert.

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