Tag: organic farming
Smell of The Earth – Natural Farming Course
Among numerous opportunities to learn and grow, this family-run farm invites visitors to come and learn different techniques in permaculture and urban farming, to share with the community.
Kollam Lady Farms Paddy On Her Rooftop
From dream to reality, a woman from Kerala spends over a decade growing paddy and vegetables on her terrace, ensuring her family's well-being during uncertain times.
Food, a Vehicle of Liberation
A Baltimore group is asserting the right of the urban poor to fresh healthy food, produced and consumed locally & equitably.
Social Media Driven Urban ‘Green Revolution’
When a casual attempt at terrace gardening fails, this man scours social media looking for answers, finds like-minded people and inspires the community to grow with him.
Worms, Partners for Your Crop
Worms provide a sustainable alternative to landfills for kitchen and garden waste and help in improving soil health.
Decommissioned Prisons Rejuvenating Communities
North Carolina based non-profit - Growing Change is working with youth and army veterans in two of America's least healthy counties by 'flipping' old, unused prisons to provide stable employment; bring access to locally grown food and reduce juvenile delinquency.
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.
Motown to Growtown: Detroit’s Urban Farmers (First screened in 2012, and a 2019 update)
Residents of the US city of Detroit are now producing organic food locally, reducing the environmental footprint of their food by cutting down on carbon emissions from transport and on chemical inputs. They are also helping revive communities as new green spaces and farmer's markets crop up, providing neighbourhoods...
One Individual’s Roadside Beautification Project Turned Into a Farm (Kerala, India)
The COVID pandemic has hit people hard around the world, not only in terms of health risks but also their most basic economic security and well-being.
Some are using this as an opportunity to become self-sufficient by growing food for their own families or as community projects, showing the way...
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 sector, issued guidelines for developing...