This document discusses food gardening in the Philippines. It begins by outlining the benefits of food gardening such as preventing micronutrient deficiencies, reducing food insecurity, and increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables. It then discusses common problems with food gardening like lack of land and water, and provides solutions. The document outlines the basic steps to establishing a food garden, including developing a plan, choosing crops, and necessary gardening techniques. It also discusses technologies used in food gardening and provides examples of successful food gardening projects in the Philippines.

1. JULY 24, 2018

2. Presidential Decree 491 or the Nutrition
Act of the Philippines mandates the
National Nutrition Council (NNC) to lead
and coordinate the nationwide
campaign.

5. WHY FOCUS ON FOOD GARDENING?
1. Prevent micronutrient deficiencies through
diet diversification

7. 2. Reduce food insecurity or food poverty

9. 3. Increase consumption of fruits and
vegetables

10. 4. Impact of food gardening to society
Home food gardens are also established to:
1. Reduce poverty
2. Diversity income and rural employment;
3. Improve the quality and quantity of household
food supply and improve nutrition;
4. Improve the status of women;
5. Improve water and waste management at
household and community levels; and,
6. Reduce pressure on wild food resouces.

11. WHAT IS THE SITUATION OF FOOD
GARDENING?
• About 7-10 households (67.7%)
• Majority of households with home gardens (79.1%)
• While only 17.6% were able to consume and sell
their produce

12. WHAT IS A FOOD GARDEN?
Food gardens have six intrinsic characteristics:
1. Are located near the residence
2. Contain a high diversity of plants
3. May include domesticated animals that
produce labor and commodities
4. Production is supplemental rather than a main
source of family consumption and income
5. Occupy small area
6. A production system that the poor can easily
enter at some level.

14. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF HAVING
FOOD GARDENS?
1. Improve nutritional status

15. 2. Improve household food security

16. 3. Increase availability of food and better
nutrition through food security

17. 4. Increase local biodiversity

18. 5. Alleviate food shortages during disaster

19. 6. Increase household income

20. 7. Offer opportunities for women,
youth, elderly and the disabled

21. 8. Foster community mobilization

22. 9. Health Intervention

23. WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS OF HAVING FOOD
GARDENS AND HOW CAN THESE BE ADDRESSED?
Problem Solutions:
a. Lack of
land
By distributing relatively small
landholdings to land-poor families:
Gardening technologies that can be
grown in smaller spaces, such as:
vertical gardening, hydroponics; and
container gardening.
1. Lack of access to land and water

24. b. Lack of water
Solution
Drought prone areas can use simple wells and artisanal irrigation
Rainwater harvesting may be an affordable means of capturing,
storing and applying water for food gardens. Households may
also use household wastewater.
Through water conservation strategies such as: terracing,
trenching, deep mulch and surface mulch (including living mulch
and ground cover creepers).
Plant spacing and mulch may be use to conserve moisture
Planting drought-tolerant plants

25. 2. Lack of capital
Solution
Cut down cost by purchasing inexpensive gardening
materials.
Live fencing (e.g. malunggay trees, kakawate) instead of
man-made fences can be used to reduce costs. Plants
used in fencing can also provide additional products for
household use or sale.
Participation in government programs through
Department of Agriculture and agriculture offices of local
government units for trainings, seeds, planting materials;
small animal dispersal and technical assistance.

26. 3. Lack of knowledge and information on
the benefits of food gardening
Solution:
Participation in nutrition education programs
such as Pabasa sa Nutrisyon
Attendance to trainings and basic courses in
food gardening by local agriculture offices and
the Department of Agriculture
Emphasizing the benefits of food gardening
towards food and nutrition security as well as
household income.

27. 4. Lack of time
Solution
Food gardens actually reduce the time in
buying produce in markets and groceries
as food becomes directly accessible in
backyards.
Better knowledge and promotion of
benefits should be imparted to these
families about food gardening through
basic food gardening courses

28. 5. Risk for pests
Solution:
Natural pest control by light traps, use of nets, use of
dusts, or infused water
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) – a pest problem-
solving process that include considerations such as
pesticide resistance, natural biological controls and
pollution, in addition to problem caused by the pest,
IPM integrates many pest-control methods and
minimizes insecticides use, particularly of the more
toxic, broad-spectrum kinds.

29. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGIES
IN FOOD GARDENING?
1. Food Always in the Home (FAITH) Gardening

30. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGIES
IN FOOD GARDENING?
2. Magic Square MeterGarden

31. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGIES
IN FOOD GARDENING?
3. Urban Gardening

32. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGIES
IN FOOD GARDENING?
4. Hydroponics

33. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGIES
IN FOOD GARDENING?
5. Bio-intensive gardening technology (BIG) for
school integrated gardening

34. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGIES
IN FOOD GARDENING?
6.VerticalGardening

35. WHAT ARE THE BASIC STEPS IN
ESTABLISHING A FOOD GARDEN?
1. Developing a garden plan
a. Location

36. Developing A Garden Plan
b. Size

37. c. Soil preparation
Developing A Garden Plan

38. d. Drainage preparation
Developing A Garden Plan

39. WHAT ARE THE BASIC STEPS IN
ESTABLISHING A FOOD GARDEN?
2. Choosing the produce to plant
a. Early maturing vegetables
 Harvesting period: 2 to 4 months
Produce: soybeans, tomatoes, pechay, bush sitao,
radish,mustard, cowpeas, sweet corn,
sweetpepper,mung beans, carrots.

40. Choosing the produce to plant
b. Semi-annual vegetables
Harvesting period : 6 to 9 months
Produce; winged bean (seguidillas),
bitter mellon (ampalaya), eggplant,
okra, squashm garlic, onion, cucumber,
sayote, upo, patola, wax ground
(kundol), ginger, and others.

41. Choosing the produce to plant
c. Annual vegetables
Harvesting period: 10-12 months
Produce: lima beans (patani) , kangkong,
alugbati, sweet potato (kamote), gabi, cassava,
pigeon pea (kadyos)

42. Choosing the produce to plant
d. Permanent crops
Produce: Papaya, pineapple, sugarcane,
singkamas, malunggay, banana, citrus and
short fruit trees.

43. WHAT ARE THE BASIC STEPS IN
ESTABLISHING A FOOD GARDEN?
3. Basic gardening tools needed

44. Basic gardening tools needed

45. WHAT ARE THE BASIC STEPS IN
ESTABLISHING A FOOD GARDEN?
4. Livestock raising
a. Choosing livestock

46. Livestock raising
b. space

47. Livestock raising
c. Feed

48. Livestock raising
d. Cost to raise

49. Livestock raising
e. Other considerations

50. Livestock raising

51. WHAT ARE THE BASIC STEPS IN
ESTABLISHING A FOOD GARDEN?
5. Necessary GardeningTechniques
a. Sowing and Planting

52. Necessary GardeningTechniques
b.Watering needs

53. c. Cultivating
Necessary GardeningTechniques

54. d. Weeding
Necessary GardeningTechniques

55. e. Fertilizing
Necessary GardeningTechniques

56. f. Pest Control
Necessary GardeningTechniques

57. g. SeedTreatment
Necessary GardeningTechniques
SeedTreatment being done for wheat seeds

58. OtherTechniques to be considered
h. Inoculation

59. i.Transplanting
OtherTechniques to be considered
Transplanting basil seeds

60. j. Cultivation
OtherTechniques to be considered

61. k. Trim ratooning plants
OtherTechniques to be considered

62. l.Trellising
OtherTechniques to be considered
Grown cucumber on trells

63. m. Staking
OtherTechniques to be considered
Staking tomatoes

64. n. Mulching
OtherTechniques to be considered
Using straw mulch keeps the soil moist even the warmest days.

65. Other Techniques to be considered
o. Crop protection

66. WHAT ARE THE BASIC STEPS IN
ESTABLISHING A FOOD GARDEN?
6. PlantingTips and Recommendation
Research Well
Start small
Build up your soil
Time your crops
Start will well-known vegetables
Stay on top of your harvest

67. HOW CAN FOOD GARDENING
CONTRIBUTE TO A FAMILY’S INCOME
AND LIVELIHOOD?

68. SUCCESS STORIES:

69. SUCCESS STORIES:

70. SUCCESS STORIES:

71. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE SUCCESSFUL
FOOD GARDENING PROJECTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES?
1. Food Always In The Home ( FAITH) by the
Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center (MBRLC)

72. 2. Participatory Action Research on School and
Community Based Food and Nutrition program for
Literacy, Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development
by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate
Study and research in Agriculture (SEARCA), Department
of Education (DepEd) , and the University of the
Philippines Las Banos (UPLB).

73. 3. Gulayan sa Paaralan Program (GPP) of the
Department of Education (DepEd) and the
Department of Agriculture (DA).

74. 4. Food Gardening in the Philippine Plan of
Action for Nutrition.
It aims to strengthen the current Gulayan Paaralan Program of DepEd and DA