Regenerative Life Garden

Grow food while regenerating the system that produces it.

What it is

The Regenerative Life Garden (RLG) is an integrated food-production system designed to make productive use of limited spaces while building healthy soil, cycling organic resources, supporting biodiversity and producing food.

Components

Vertical growing
Multi-layered production
Composting
Biochar
Soil regeneration
Water management
Biodiversity

Who it is for

Households
Schools
Organizations
Communities
Institutions

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A woman harvesting lettuce beside a vertical RLG tower covered in kale and chard, with a compost heap behind — A mature RLG with a compost heap alongside

The RLG in pictures

Each photo below shows one part of the system, from structure to harvest.

Kale and chard growing densely up the sides of a vertical RLG — Structure: vertical, layered growing

Rows of green and red lettuce on mulched soil in front of vertical gardens — Soil: mulch and organic matter

A group adding kitchen scraps from an orange basin into the composting area of an RLG — Compost: turning kitchen waste into soil

Biochar pieces mixed into the soil of an RLG around a young seedling — Biochar in the soil

An RLG mound with cucumber, cabbage and other crops growing together — Biodiversity: mixed crops on one RLG

Three men lifting a crate of freshly harvested greens in front of a cabbage-covered RLG — Harvest: greens from the RLG

A group of trainees adding kitchen waste to the compost of an RLG — People: learning to feed the RLG

A team and trainees stretching chicken wire between wooden stakes to build a new RLG frame, with a pile of biochar in the foreground — Installation: building an RLG frame

Want to go deeper?

Learn more about the Regenerative Life Garden Climate Quest for Food Sovereignty and Climate Action in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Visit www.rlgearth.com