Community pantry -community planting

Just to share…we are practicing community pantry for everyone. People who has means can share what they have and people whose in need will only get what they actually need at that time for free. A long table was set up and on it are veggies, whatever iessentials are placed… people will line in queue waiting for their turn to get what they need.This is in support for those who became unemployed; people who has very low subsidy.
This pandemic helps us realize that we are resilient and ready to help in times of need. .Align with community pantry, I have this idea of… If only those vacant lot / idle land will be used for gardening, I guess the community/ village will be self sufficient in vegetables. These has positive effect fir the community/village such as the following:
Will foster camaraderie among neighbors
Maintenance of idle/vacant lot will be lessened
Provide good example to younger generation of taking care of mother earth
“Earthing” has positive effect on our health

Provide food for less fortunate/ poorest people in the community
Of course, neighbors who will participate will be the one to enjoy their fruits of labor.
Well, its just my idea. If you find it feasible and doable, then maybe the community can come up with plans and guidelines in implementing and execution… Only veggies that easily grows will be planted such as pechay, tomatoes, lettuce, eggplants and the like. I thank you.

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Hi @GLNF712 !

Thanks for sharing your post with the LG Community! It is very important in this difficult times to be solidary.

There is only one thing that I do not understand clearly… this post intention is to give an idea to be implemented in our community or you are telling us a story about something you have already implemented?

As a suggerence, It would be great if you add some photos to your post. Posts with photos are more graphical and better accepted by the community.

Thanks for sharing this with us!

Ceci

Hi@CeciliaRatto!

Thank you for your suggestion. The reason why i shared it, was to inform what is being done here in our community. It is called Dampa ni Maria Parish Community pantry. My idea is similar to it but instead of giving the produce, the community/neighbors will if possible utilize idle or vacant lots of the people living around it to be used for easy grown veggies and can be harvested in 2 to 4 months. In this way they can share their fruits of labor and can share to less fortunate in their community/area. It will foster camaraderie and forged friendship.

Attached are the pics