Gulayan sa Paaralan program: Teaching kids how to grow food
>> Friday, February 18, 2022
Ma. Marissa A. Balao-as
BAUKO, Mountain Province -- To address malnutrition and to promote
vegetable production and consumption among learners in basic education of the
Dept. of Education, the Gulayan sa Paaralan Program was integrated in the
curriculum.
The program aims to promote vegetable production in public elementary and secondary schools, establish and maintain school gardens as ready source of vegetables in sustaining feeding considering these are rich sources of protein, vitamins and minerals.
To increase vegetable consumption and improve learners’ nutrition, learners need to know value of gardening, good health and nutrition, love for labor, poverty alleviation and promote food security.
Gulayan sa Paaralan provides students with real time look at how food is grown. There are different models of how these gardens work and learners have to learning how to grow, harvest and prepare a variety of fruits and vegetables.
It helps to create a connection to food to get students thinking about where their foods comes from and what it takes to grow. It supports better nutrition in students and can incorporate lessons on healthy eating. Hands on learning has proven to be very popular with students and schools.
Gardening burns a lot of calories, lower blood pressure, relieve stress and provide a source of community.
School gardens are not just places for plant science and ecology, they are places for art, music, math and creative writing. In the garden, we can teach about sharing and teamwork as well as interconnected use of life.
Young children can practice locomotor skills, body management skills and object control skills while they move from one place to another carrying tools, soil and water.
Life skills learners learn through gardening patience and responsibility in a way that when you plant a garden, the plant depends on you to see their needs. Time management relies heavily on timing, delayed gratification, self-care and resources.
In our locality, majority of people are farmers planting varied kinds of vegetables and fruits in the field. School gardens serve as training ground and venue for appreciation as source of foods and finance. Families who managed home gardening and exposed children to entrepreneurship are financially stable families. As the saying goes, “Experience is the best teacher.”
As we are affected by lockdowns during this pandemic, school gulayans continuously produce food. Parents and stakeholders work hand and hand to sustain these during the year round brigada activities.
Some of the harvest are used for food for work during brigada activities and some harvest sold at6 the market. Proceeds are utilized to purchase school needs.
One of the stakeholders said, working collaboratively sustains cultural values on binnadang, og-ogbo, kakarafin and other local terms as they called. In unity, there is strength, development and progress.
The program supports hunger mitigation initiatives of government to establish and encourage public and secondary schools to establish gardens to ensure continuous supply of vegetables for school-based feeding program and other feeding programs.
The general objective of the GPP is to promote food security in schools and communities through self; help food production activities and values among learners and appreciation of agriculture as a life support system.
It aims to promote vegetable production in public elementary and secondary schools, establish and maintain school gardens as ready food basket source of vegetables in sustaining feeding programs.
The GPP showcases small scale food production models and inculcate among learners value of gardening, good health and nutrition, love for labor, poverty alleviation promote food security
School gardens provide students with real time look at how food is grown. There are different models of how these gardens work. Children learn how to grow, harvest and prepare a variety of fruits and vegetables.
The program aims to promote vegetable production in public elementary and secondary schools, establish and maintain school gardens as ready source of vegetables in sustaining feeding considering these are rich sources of protein, vitamins and minerals.
To increase vegetable consumption and improve learners’ nutrition, learners need to know value of gardening, good health and nutrition, love for labor, poverty alleviation and promote food security.
Gulayan sa Paaralan provides students with real time look at how food is grown. There are different models of how these gardens work and learners have to learning how to grow, harvest and prepare a variety of fruits and vegetables.
It helps to create a connection to food to get students thinking about where their foods comes from and what it takes to grow. It supports better nutrition in students and can incorporate lessons on healthy eating. Hands on learning has proven to be very popular with students and schools.
Gardening burns a lot of calories, lower blood pressure, relieve stress and provide a source of community.
School gardens are not just places for plant science and ecology, they are places for art, music, math and creative writing. In the garden, we can teach about sharing and teamwork as well as interconnected use of life.
Young children can practice locomotor skills, body management skills and object control skills while they move from one place to another carrying tools, soil and water.
Life skills learners learn through gardening patience and responsibility in a way that when you plant a garden, the plant depends on you to see their needs. Time management relies heavily on timing, delayed gratification, self-care and resources.
In our locality, majority of people are farmers planting varied kinds of vegetables and fruits in the field. School gardens serve as training ground and venue for appreciation as source of foods and finance. Families who managed home gardening and exposed children to entrepreneurship are financially stable families. As the saying goes, “Experience is the best teacher.”
As we are affected by lockdowns during this pandemic, school gulayans continuously produce food. Parents and stakeholders work hand and hand to sustain these during the year round brigada activities.
Some of the harvest are used for food for work during brigada activities and some harvest sold at6 the market. Proceeds are utilized to purchase school needs.
One of the stakeholders said, working collaboratively sustains cultural values on binnadang, og-ogbo, kakarafin and other local terms as they called. In unity, there is strength, development and progress.
The program supports hunger mitigation initiatives of government to establish and encourage public and secondary schools to establish gardens to ensure continuous supply of vegetables for school-based feeding program and other feeding programs.
The general objective of the GPP is to promote food security in schools and communities through self; help food production activities and values among learners and appreciation of agriculture as a life support system.
It aims to promote vegetable production in public elementary and secondary schools, establish and maintain school gardens as ready food basket source of vegetables in sustaining feeding programs.
The GPP showcases small scale food production models and inculcate among learners value of gardening, good health and nutrition, love for labor, poverty alleviation promote food security
School gardens provide students with real time look at how food is grown. There are different models of how these gardens work. Children learn how to grow, harvest and prepare a variety of fruits and vegetables.
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