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#India - Backyard nutrition gardens- For family nutrition and income

In rainfed agriculture, where farm livelihoods are highly vulnerable to climate vagaries, alternative farm based enterprises go a long way in providing the necessary support for #farmers to remain in farming. Backyard kitchen garden is one such enterprise which meets multiple needs like food, income and nutrition security, besides empowering women.

September 2025

Excerpt: "A key intervention was to help farm women raise kitchen gardens in their backyard. These kitchen gardens are meant to increase #FoodDiversity in the diets of the participating families and reduce reliance on the market for introduced vegetables. Each interested household was provided with a kitchen garden kit containing around 10-13 types of vegetable seeds. By raising kitchen gardens, women were able to harvest many types of seasonal vegetables.

"During 2023-24, kitchen garden kits with 13 different varieties of vegetables were given to 70 group members. For those who had sown seeds early in the season, owing to excessive rains, the seeds didn’t germinate. But around 40% of the women who took up late sowing, could harvest vegetables from the gardens. Women have done #composting with kitchen waste, garden clippings, and dry leaves to create rich organic #compost. This compost is used to fertilize the garden beds. They also prepared organic liquid fertilizers like #Panchagavya and #Jeevamruta to increase immunity and promote plant growth. To manage pest and diseases, they used #NeemOil spray as #NaturalPesticides. Organic #mulch, such as straw and dried leaves, were applied around plants to retain soil moisture, suppress weeds, and improve soil health. Each of the households produced vegetables like #brinjal, #bhendi, #tomato, #gourds, #cucumber, #radish and green #vegetables. On an average each household produced vegetables worth Rs.2500-3500 in a season.

"Again, 2024 has been a year of heavy rainfall for Dharwad district. Untimely rains caused havoc, damaging crops. Farmers had to face crop losses and in such a situation around 25 women farmers raised nutrition qardens in their backyard. Each household produced vegetables worth Rs.3000-4000 in a season. Kitchen gardens served as a boon to these families facing #FoodShortages due to crop loss."

Read more:
https://www.leisaindia.org/backyard-nutrition-gardens-for-family-nutrition-and-income/

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Home gardeners prepare kitchen gardens this monsoon | Pune News https://www.allforgardening.com/1378708/home-gardeners-prepare-kitchen-gardens-this-monsoon-pune-news/ #garden #gardening #GerminationTrays #HomeGardening #KitchenGardens #MonsoonGardeningTips #PuneLatestNews #PuneNews #PuneNewsLive #PuneNewsToday #TodayNewsPune #VegetableGrowing #vegetables #VegetablesGardening

Home gardeners prepare kitchen gardens this monsoon | Pune News https://www.allforgardening.com/1378708/home-gardeners-prepare-kitchen-gardens-this-monsoon-pune-news/ #garden #gardening #GerminationTrays #HomeGardening #KitchenGardens #MonsoonGardeningTips #PuneLatestNews #PuneNews #PuneNewsLive #PuneNewsToday #TodayNewsPune #VegetableGrowing #vegetables #VegetablesGardening

A '#PotagerGarden' Is Perfect for Anyone Who Wants to Start Growing Their Own Food

Calling all green-thumbed cooks!

By Laura Fenton, April 17, 2025

Excerpt (I LOVE this idea and have used it):

Incorporate Decorative Garden Structures

"Potager gardens often include decorative vertical elements like trellises and tuteurs. 'I replaced all my boring metal tomato cages with willow pyramids, and I love adding trellises for vertical climbers like sweet peas and cucumbers,' says Poshusta. Likewise, decorative cloches can add that vertical element and protect your crops from nibbling animals. Gardner has an arbor with climbing roses that defines the entry to her potager."

https://www.realsimple.com/potager-garden-11715776?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#Gardening #SolarPunkSunday #FoodGardens #CottageGardens #FoodSecurity #KitchenGardens

I love looking out our kitchen window and knowing that we turned what was a frankly useless bit of paved terrasse that the previous owners installed into a thriving little #KitchenGarden of #RaisedBeds

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What a difference a month can make!

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First carrot harvest! (Banana for scale)

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The #tomato plants that we grew from seeds saved from last years crop are moving from our indoor windowsills to their main #RaisedBeds today.

We put a couple of test plants out the other day and not only do they not look shocked about being planted out, they're looking like their gonna thrive.

Freakin' love tomato season now that we have our own #garden.

#Tomatoes #TomatoGardening #KitchenGardens #KitchenGardening #KitchenGarden #Gardening

Our cat, and all the cats in the neighbourhood like using our raised beds as toilets.

I decided to try to make some rustic stick cages to place across the top of the beds to stop them from becoming kitty squattie potties.

So far they are working out great. They dont take too long to make, but do require some fairly straight sticks, which we have in abundance after doing some pruning of our ornamental trees and bushes in early spring. Plus, since I used some natural fiber twine - they're completely biodegradable!

(Shhhh, yes I know I need to weed and mulch. Just waiting for some carrots to come up so I know what NOT to rip out or cover up :P)

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