| Abstrakt: |
Urban gardening is the practice of cultivating, processing and distributing food in or around urban areas. Its' most prominent feature is that it is integrated into the urban economic and ecological system, unlike rural agriculture. Such linkages include the use of urban residents as laborers, the use of urban resources (like organic waste as compost and urban wastewater for irrigation), it has direct links with urban consumers, and directly influences the urban ecology as part of the urban food system. Urban gardening may take place in locations inside cities (intra-urban) or in periurban areas. The food garden at the Cato Manor Health Centre is a food security and nutrition intervention that aims at addressing the well-being, education and management of hypertension and diabetes through the lifestyle modification of healthy eating behaviours. The urban garden at the clinic promotes food awareness and gardening skills among regular patients and visitors. By encouraging sustainable livelihoods, clinic patients who live in Cato Manor extend this knowledge to their farming practices in the rural areas. The backyard garden on the clinic property is 100 square meters in size and grows a range of vegetables and fruit, based on permaculture and agroecological principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
