Urban Gardening Propogation

Initiative and Planning for Urban Gardening Service: Yesterday during Service we planned our goals and Aims for the rest of the year. Below is the table which includes our goals and our plans on how to achieve them. Mrs Jackyl also told us about the local significance of our activity, 6 or 7 activities are directly impacted by our service, the plants we grow are used by the primary, middle and high school gardening activities, The sustainabrew, Raw beauty, Composting and East farmers market use our plants. We also talked about our aim to become more Sustainable by making our own seeds and encouraging donations. We also talked about Awareness and how we want to showcase our successes and encourage others to start gardening. We have planned some informational videos about how to plant and work on improving our portfolio/padlet/websites. We discussed the SDG’s that we focus on. As chairs, Isabel and I came up with these ideas and collaborated with the communication officers, Eddie and Raghavi in our group. One of the other initiatives that we are starting is to create a seed bank. We discussed the Svalbard seed vault in Antarctica, Where countries from all over the world send their heirloom seeds, that way if any nuclear war or natural disaster occurred and civilisation would have to restart we would have access to seeds. Currently, Six large firms dominated the sale of seeds and agricultural chemicals in 2015 in the United States and around the world: BASF, Bayer, Dow Chemical, DuPontMonsanto, and Syngenta. This is dangerous as most people will not have access to seeds. Learning to plant and creating our own seeds is very important on a global scale

 

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