STOP THE SPIRALING PRICES OF FOOD! Build a Homesite (Bahay Kubo Concept)

 STOP THE SPIRALING PRICES OF FOOD!

Build a Homesite (Bahay Kubo Concept)

Dr Abe V Rotor

Living with Nature - School on Blog

This article has be adjudged one of related projects that won the Ist Oscar Florendo Awards for Developmental Communication. 

Home gardening is fun, exercise, and source of food and medicine - and a source of income. Study these models and find out which ones are applicable in your area. Share your experience with the members of the family, school and your community.

This is a floor plan of a homesite you can build, adjustable in area, design and components.  Shift your efforts and finances into an investment, short to long term.  Be healthy and happy with your family.  Learn to live within your means, with less and less food to buy, simple technology, recycling, and many other advantages. Redesign this model to your own situation and need.

These gardening models have been developed from studies and observations of successful projects locally and abroad. They serve as guide to participants and listeners of Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (School-on-Air) to help them in their projects, particularly in times of food scarcity, such as the present situation caused by the El Niño phenomenon.

But even during normal times, these models are useful to gardening enthusiasts, especially children and senior citizens who find this hobby highly rewarding to health and leisure, and as a source of livelihood, notwithstanding. Those who are participating in projects in food production and environmental beautification, such as the Clean and Green Movement, and Green Revolution projects, will find these models similarly valuable.

One however, can modify them according to the peculiarity of his place, and in fact, he can combine those models that are compatible so as to develop and integrate them into a larger and more diversified plan.

One who is familiar with the popular Filipino composition Bahay Kubo, can readily identify the plants mentioned therein with those that are cited in these models. And in his mind would appear an imagery of the scenario in which he can fit these models accordingly.

Here is a plan of a Homesite - an ideal integrated garden around a home in a rural setting. Compare this with Bahay Kubo. Update it. Innovate it according to your concept, situation and needs. Allow innovations as long as these do not lose the essence of the plan. You can even expand the area, adding more features to it.

In effect, this Homesite model becomes a model farm, a Homestead - one that has economic and ecological attributes that characterize the concept of sustainable productivity cum aesthetics and educational values.

LESSON on former Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School on Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio 738 DZRB AM, 8 to 9 Evening Class, Monday to Friday