4. How can we ensure the participation of youth in the wider food security dialogue?
At Farms & Gardens for the Disabled, we raise the level of the soil to within easy reach. This has several effects on the gardening dynamic.
Youth are more likely to participate in the food security dialogue if gardening is made more accessible. There appear to be three main reasons for this.
1. Gardening is more enjoyable if you can stand upright, move around, and work with others.
2. Success grows enthusiasm.
3. Elevated gardening can happen almost everywhere.Food, herbs and natural remedies can be produced in places where it is otherwise not possible to grow anything.
The passage of knowledge and experience from elders to youth is facilitated, simply because both can work the same beds.
Insect pests, rodent infestation, weeding and watering are all managed more easily in beds that have been raised three feet (one meter) into the air.
Mr. Paul von Hartmann