WHAT IS NUTRITION MONTH?

Nutrition Month is a yearly campaign held

every July to create greater awareness
among Filipinos on the importance of
nutrition. Presidential Decree 491 or the
Nutrition Act of the Philippines mandates
the National Nutrition Council (NNC) to lead
and coordinate the nationwide campaign.
WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE 2018
NUTRITION MONTH?
 The Nutrition Month campaign aims to contribute
to improved nutrition through improved food
access by increasing the number of households,
schools, and communities engaged in food gardens.
Specifically, it aims to:
 1. Encourage development of food gardens among
families and in communities, schools, government
offices, and workplaces.
 2.Mobilize various stakeholders to provide a fostering
environment for sustainable food gardens.
WHY FOCUS ON FOOD GARDENING?
1. Prevent micronutrient deficiencies
through diet diversification
2. Reduce food insecurity or food
poverty
3. Increase consumption of fruits and
vegetables
4. Impact of food gardening to society
WHAT IS FOOD GARDEN?
 Food gardens refer to “an intimate, multi-storey
combinations of various trees and crops, sometimes in
association with domestic animals, around homesteads,
and add that home garden cultivation is fully or partially
committed for vegetables, fruits, and herbs, primarily for
domestic consumption and secondary for additional
household income.
 Sustainable food production such as food gardens may also
give focus towards livestock raising, which is the rearing
of animals like cows and small animals like chickens, goats
and ducks, and raised in an agricultural setting to produce
labor and commodities (meat, eggs, or milk).
WHAT IS FOOD GARDEN?
 Food gardens tend to be located close to
dwelling for security, convenience, and
special care. They occupy a land marginal
to field production and labor marginal to
major household economic activities.
 Alternatively,
food gardens are also called
the following: mixed-garden horticulture,
house garden, compound farm garden,
kitchen garden, household garden, and
homestead agroforestry.
SIX INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS OF
FOOD GARDENS
 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 a small area
 6.A production system that the poor can easily enter at
some level
WHY THERE IS A NEED TO ESTABLISH
HOME FOOD GARDENS?

 1. reduce poverty;
 2. diversify 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 resources.
BENEFITS OF HAVING A FOOD GARDEN
 1. Improve nutritional status
 2. Improve household food security
 3. Increase availability of food and better nutrition
through food diversity
 4. Increase local biodiversity
 5. Alleviate food shortages during disaster
 6. Increase household income
 7. Offer opportunities for women, youth, elderly, and the
disabled
 8. Foster community mobilization
 9. Health intervention
WHAT IS THE SITUATION OF FOOD
GARDENING IN THE PHILIPPINES?
About 7 out of 10 households (67.7%)
practice food gardening at home.
Majority of households with home
gardens (79.1%) utilize their produce
for personal consumption, while only
17.6% were able to consume and sell
their produce.
WHAT ARE THE TECHNOLOGIES OF FOOD
GARDENING?
 1. Food Always in the Home (FAITH) Gardening
 2. Magic Square Meter Garden
 3. Urban Gardening
 4. Hydroponics
 5.Bio-intensive gardening technology (BIG) for
school integrated gardening
 6. Vertical gardening
FOOD ALWAYS IN THE HOME (FAITH)
GARDENING
 Food Always in the Home (FAITH) garden is a type
of vegetable gardening that can provide the
necessary protein, vitamins and mineral
requirements needed by a family with 6 members.
It is a basic guide that was designed in such a way
that it requires minimum cost, labor, and land
utilization. The FAITH garden, when properly
followed, can provide 300 grams (or one bowl) of
fresh vegetables daily.
MAGIC SQUARE METER GARDEN
 Magic Square Meter Garden is a one-square
meter plot planted with “plant and forget”
and “die hard” type of plants – Malunggay,
Alugbati, Camote tops, Kangkong and Pechay
(MACK-P) and can accommodate 20 to 30
plants. The aim is to assist the planning and
creation of a small but intensively planted
vegetable garden. It results in a simple and
orderly gardening system.
URBAN GARDENING
 Urban gardening can be practiced through these methods:
 a. Container gardening - Container gardening or pot gardening is
the practice of growing plants, including edible plants, exclusively
in containers instead of planting them in the ground. Containers
range from simple plastic pots, plastic bottles, old tires and pails,
and sacks. This flexibility in design is another reason container
gardening is popular with growers. They can be found on porches,
front steps, and in urban locations, on rooftops.
 b. Companion gardening - Companion planting in gardening and
agriculture is the planting of different crops in proximity for any of
a number of different reasons, including pest control, pollination,
providing habitat for beneficial creatures, maximizing use of
space, and to otherwise increase crop productivity.
HYDROPHONICS
 Hydroponics is a method of growing plants in a
water-based, nutrient-rich solution. It does
not use soil, but instead the root system is
supported using an inert medium (such as
perlite, rockwool, clay pellets, or
vermiculture). The premise for technology
behind hydroponics is that it allows the plant
roots to come in direct contact with nutrient
solution, while also having access to oxygen,
which is essential for proper growth.
BIO-INTENSIVE GARDENING (BIG)
 To address malnutrition and hunger, the Department of Education
(DepEd) has put in place poverty alleviation schemes that will help
promote food security and economic stability for affected families.
The Gulayan sa Paaralan Program (GPP) was then implemented in
support to the hunger mitigation initiatives of the government. DepEd
Memorandum No. 293, s. 2007 was issued to encourage both public
elementary and secondary schools to establish school gardens to
ensure continuous supply of vegetables for school feeding.
 Bio-intensive school garden standards were developed to facilitate
the implementation. BIG practices include deep-dug and raised plots
followed by minimum tillage, diversification by growing various
indigenous vegetables, use of green tree fertilizers like kakawate
(Gliricidia sepium) to sustain soil fertility and cover cropping using
legumes during the summer season, to protect soil health and
conserve fertility.
VERTICAL GARDENING
A vertical garden is a garden that grows
upward (vertically) using a trellis or other
support system, rather than on the ground
(horizontally). This technique can be used
to create living screens between different
areas, providing privacy for your yard or
home. More recently, vertical gardens can
also be used to grow flowers and even
vegetables.
DM 293,s.2007
Project Gulayan sa Paaralan

Gulayan sa Paaralan (GPP) is a

collaborative effort of the school
and the community to promote
tree planting and gardening
within the compounds of a small
spaces.
OBJECTIVES
 Raise the level of public consciousness on the health
and nutritional dimension as well as economic benefits
of establishing school , household and community
gardens.
 Establishschool gardens to serve as the food basket or
main source of commodities to sustain supplementary
feeding.
 Intensifyproduction of selected varieties of fruits and
vegetables that are rich sources of protein, calorie,
vitamins and minerals to improve child nutrition.
OBJECTIVES
 Showcase small scale food production models in schools
for the households and community to replicate
purposely to promote family food security.
 Inculcate among the studentry the values of good
health and nutrition, industry, love of labor and caring
for others.
MOST COMMON LOCAL VEGETABLES IN THE PHILIPPINES
MOST COMMON LOCAL VEGETABLES IN THE PHILIPPINES
MOST COMMON LOCAL VEGETABLES IN THE PHILIPPINES