Sack gardening is a low cost way to overcome the common problems that prevent food production in slums or other densely populated urban areas: lack of cultivatable space, no land ownership, no or low income; thus providing means to increase food security. Sacks can be placed in almost every corner, are easy to set up, resemble and rearrange, require only inexpensive materials and no technical knowledge for their preparation.
We would like to investigate the whole process chain from setting up a bag until the harvest of vegetables in order to get a concrete impression of the amount and number of harvests to gain, necessary resources like irrigation water, building materials and costs. We may use two arrangement setups with three sacks each: a horizontal arrangement on the ground and a hanging setup in order to utilize as less space as possible. Vegetables of choice are: tomatoes, carrots, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower and maize.