URBAN FARMING AND FOOD SECURITY

Urban farming it is very important to the immigrants of urban areas to make sure that they contribute on growing crops in their communities. Urban local farmers also benefits from the their constituents  and contribute to the society. I learn so much about local farmers  that if the person has passionate about growing crops but does not have enough space to do it they have some their good ways to make it possible. Mr Sibisi have an empteous to grow vegetables and fruits he came up with a good idea to to grow crops on his back yard.

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All urban farming they faces challenges of that

they do not have an adequate land to grow their crops. Mr Sibisi taught us many things about being a farmer although he is uneducated but he have more knowledge about farming. Other things that we learnt from our farmer is that if you have passion about something you should come up with a plan to make sure that your vision being successful. For instance Mr Sibisi use his back yard to grow crops because in township people they cannot even extend the yard when you wants to do something like the spare space to do whatever you want to do. He shows us that he has empteous about ploughing cause he take a decision to use his back yard the purpose of want to save money because the food price it is increasing each and every month. Mr Sibisi also doing some experiement by tesing other crops to plough it on the unusually season to grow that crop like sweet potatoes is only ploughing in winter but our farm try to prove that is real going to affect the crops that season ploughing or not. The most important thing is that our farm he did not purchase some fertilizer he is using natural like dung of goats and rotten leaves to make the soil fertile and will lead to produce good and more products.


 They also do crop rotation to make sure that the crops will grow fast and produce more products. Mr Sibisi have a talented on what he is doing cause he also make ground waterhole to avoid using water to irrigate his crops. The ground waterhole helps when it is raining to store water that will help when the soil getting dry and the crops absorb this water with the roots. To the farm  he grow vegetables and fruit such as Spinach, spring onion, green pepper, kidney beans, strawberries, chillies, pumkin, potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrot, tomatoes, etc. Mr Sibisi he plough some other crops the purpose of  avoiding his vegetable on insects and rats. He taught us he always growing spring onino to make sure that insects and rats will never eat his crops and he us ash instead of blue death to kill insects in his garden. Our farm also believe in this slogan"' ONE HOME ONE GARDEN'' that why he grow crops for his family and sometime the society and he is also benefit from his community.


farmer and challenges they faced as urban farmers. I have learnt so much although Mr Sibisi does not have enough land to grow his crops and that lead him to grow only for his family.The big problem is that in urban areas people are not allow to have big yard all residential they have small yards even they want to grow vegetables they cannot because they have not enough place. In urban areas people are not allowed to use water to irrigate their vegetables in terms of that our farmer shows us some ground water holes in his yard and told us these holes helps a lot when it is raining the water flow on it that assist the sand to stay wet. When the sand is getting dry the crop suck the water from those ground water holes. Our farmer he knows well everything about farming although he is uneducated the evidence of that he plough many different types of vegetables and fruit such as spinach, cabbage, lettuce, chillies, kidney beans, white beans, brinjols,  green peppers, strawberries, spring onion etc. Some of vegetables does he  grows because of the purpose it is also works to kill insects and rats like spring onion and also use ash instead of blue death. Mr Sibisi also use natural fertilizer to make sure that the crops produce more products. In terms of fertilizer he use goats dung to fertilize the soil and old rotten crops. Our farmer have more knowldge even things like environment he knows very well for instance he taught us about that other peoples says some vegetables needs to be ploughing only winter like sweet potatoes but he proved that it is not true because of the way the sweet potatoes produce more products in that season. He always come up with some new ideas by ploughing other crops in different season it could be grow to want to know it can produce good result even though is not the right season for those crops. The purpose of our farmer while he start to grow crop is to provide his community and supply local supermarket with fresh vegetables and also to benefits from them. Mr Sibisi also believe in that theme "ONE HOME ONE GARDEN'' that will make things easier for people to stay heathly by having those small vegetables garden in their homes. It is crucial to plough something in your yard like vegetables especially those people who are unemployemt to avoid poverty because prices of food are increasing each and everyday.