Touch the Soil News #1462 (Feature photo – SM Farming Class – courtesy of SM Foundation)
SunStar news portal brings us the story of urban and home food gardening in the Philippines. With a per-capita income of only $3,246, many people work hard to make ends meet. One of those tactics is to learn how to garden.
Over the past 13 years, with the help of a national-scope non-profit (SM Foundation https://sm-foundation.org/programs/farmers-training) almost 20,000 people in over 700 towns have taken a 12-week urban farming curriculum. The curriculum not only helps you grow your own, but to make a business out of it. You can read the full story here: