Tag: Education
Of the Community, By the Community, For the Community
New York based organisation, Harlem Grown, has been transforming lives by incorporating urban farming practices while engaging entire communities and schools in order to create sustainable change. The movement was influenced by factors such as the crisis of food insecurity and institutional disparities among communities though the organisation continues to achieve so much more.
Daycares in Finland Changed Children’s Immune Systems With Forest Floor Play-yards
Recent research from Finland suggests that children's immune system can be boosted by letting them play in soil more often.
Indian Schools Asked to Set up School Nutrition Gardens
All schools in India have been asked to set up "school nutrition gardens" by the central government. The gardens will have to be managed by the students, with the help of staff and teachers.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), which governs the education...
Uganda Schools Promote Urban Farming
Uganda's crowded capital Kampala offers little space to grow crops. But some schools in the city are promoting a new initiative - which helps students stay healthy and save money.
School Closes Canteen and Now the Children Choose Broccoli
Auckland primary school children are growing their own vegetables - and actually want to eat the fruits of their labour.
Lincoln Heights Primary School in Massey closed its canteen late last year, and now students grow their own healthy food. The school garden had vegetables...
Solar-Powered School In Denmark Planned For Kids Grow Their Own Food
A secondary school in Denmark hopes to be more engaging with students with a solar-powered building that teaches them how to grow and cook food in the rooftop garden.
Boasting a size of 105,690 square feet, this new school allows for up to 784 students...
Goats, Pigs And Veggies Crop Up In Urban Tokyo
A lift takes you to the Otemachi Bokujyo ("Otemachi Farm") on the 13th floor of a gleaming skyscraper. You step out into natural light streaming in from floor-to-ceiling windows. Tiny plywood picket fences in the 1,000 sq m space separate the animals from visitors.
Across...
Mangaluru Man Shows Terrace Gardens Can Be A Boon
After working in West Asia for six years, Blany D’Souza returned home to Mangaluru 20 years ago. A passion for growing fruits and vegetables led him to set up a garden on an area of 1,200 sq ft on the terrace of his home...
A Rapper Grows Plants, Peace and Self-Esteem In Colombia
Luis Fernando Alvarez looks more like a rapper than a farmer. "El AKA" as he is known in Medellin, Colombia's second-largest city, has brought his two passions together with the initiative Agro Arte - agricultural art.
San Javier is a slum of mountainous Medellin, and...
Sowing Seeds For Social Good
Founder of Ikhaya Garden, Xolisa Bangani, speaks about his passion for nature, and how starting a garden in Khayelitsha has helped change his community. Bangani started growing plants and flowers at home and says he was motivated by a friend to start growing vegetables....
