Home Farming: Container Gardening Expands in 26 Barangays
- mutyatarona
- May 14, 2017
- 1 min read
CITY OF MATI – To jumpstart 2017 the Green Communities Program now strengthens its drive to promote backyard gardening aimed to promote food sufficiency by launching it in 26 barangays.
Vice Mayor and Barangay Integration for the Development and Action (BIDA) Programs Director Glenda Rabat-Gayta said that this is to cater the growing demand of the program in each community.
“To create a more cohesive name and not only exclusive for urban areas, the Cycle 2 will be called as Home Farming Container Gardening” she added.
Meanwhile, Cycle 2 will introduce entrepreneurship and leadership to the 26 Top Performers of Cycle 1 and replication to new identified areas.
This will also introduce new community extension arm of the program including 23 Barangay Integrators, they are the community leaders who were trained in container gardening last Oct 2014 and Monitoring and Evaluation Capabilities Training last January 26, 2017 . This is to prepare them in expanding the advocacy in their respective barangay.
Meanwhile, the media and promotion of the GreenCom Program is in close partnership with Kalamboan sa Barangay Advocacy Program.
Source: GreenCom Updates Community Newsletter Issue 2
Related Article
Comments