LET’S PLAN: BACKYARD

VEGETABLE GARDENING

PROJECT PROPOSAL

THEME: Promote Health and Green Environment

PREPARED BY: LYTLE JOY C. DAYAG

ADDRESS: CUAMBOGAN TAGUM CITY

PREPARED TO: JONATHAN CORDOVAN

TABLE OF CONTENTS

➢ Introduction

➢ Discussion of NSTP 2

➢ Weekly Photo Documentation with essay/ narrative report/discussion

➢ Realization and Outcome of the Activity

 I. Introduction

Home gardening are an important building block, along with community gardens and in other
natural spaces. By this we can help restore some of nature’s balance by designing their
landscape with the needs of wildlife in mind. And being outside increases your exposure to
Vitamin D and the weight bearing exercise of gardening is good for bones and the heart. We
could really help our environment, because we all have the choices on how we will take care
of our plants, we can lessen the use of chemicals and also climate change. This is also a big
help for us to be ready, specially we don’t knew what would happen next in our country we
already experience big crisis when there is pandemic and we can’t easily going outside to buy
food to support our family and we don’t have enough money that’s why we need to be
practical for us to have something to harvest anytime.

II. Discussion of NSTP 2

National Service Training Program 2 has complemented the knowledge learned from NSTP 1.
As a pre-requisite course, it is designed to empower students with the foundation of
community projects, its planning and implementation through the projects advocacies which
can contribute to the general welfare and can improve the quality of life of people in the
community. NSTP 2 supposedly students should be outside to participate in a various activity
in the community like panting trees, plants, vegetables and etc. but due to our current
situation today students are only required to make their own gardens in the backyard of their
area or anywhere that is applicable to them. This is one way for the student to still
participate in this kind of community activity even though they are not meeting each other to
go anywhere, it could still be a greater positive impact for the student to improved its ability
to apply what they have learned in the real world.
 III. Weekly Photo Documentation with essay/ narrative report/
discussion

I got help from my papa and mama knowing that I am not really into planting but my parents
really love to plants vegetable or any kind of food to eat. But what’s best in this project is that,
this made me realize that I should also love to do planting, like what my parents do, because I
could bring this in the future and let my children do it, not just to provide them a food to eat in
case of emergency but also it can help taking care our own environment.

I still continue to take good care of my garden and if I forgot to sprinkle some water my mama
will be there always to the rescue. This was really a nice activity for me specially to my little
cousin because she let her self-involve in this activity. Knowing that she's just five years old she
really wants to help me and do it without any complain. This is a best practice to the youth out
there to do it as an exercise every morning. It really helps us to be physically fit by doing this as
an exercise and eating vegetables for a healthy life style.

In this activity this makes you realize that you are not doing this just because it’s a part of a
project in your school but you would really think that, it is really a big help to the youth and to
the environment. By this we could also be a blessing to other people. Because we don't know
that what if this garden would really boom and vegetables would really grow into a healthy
one, we could share something to other people specially in our neighbor. We can also sell it into
the market and gain money and the most important is that we can save money also because we
have something to eat in our own backyard and we don't need to spend money too much.
It was not so hard in my part making a garden or to plant vegetables, because in our backyard
we already have our garden. And I got help from my papa and mama who loves gardening
even if it’s just a simple one. This really helps us specially during lack down, we have
something to get and to eat even if we can’t easily go to the market. It is good seeing my
vegetable garden is well growing and its healthy. I love seeing it every day were in fact early in
the morning I could see already the beauty of green environment. We could really promote a
healthy life style. I've learned this from my papa who can’t eat without the presence of
vegetables every day. It is already a part of his life growing and I am proud that he let me have
it since I was young.

I really see that my garden is very well growing into a healthy one. We all know that plants are
really important, this helps our environment for us to sustain ourselves a food to eat and of
course it is a healthy food that could boost our immune system and that what we really need
now a days. By this we are not really into spending money so we can save more.

This give us the value of working with hands. Making a garden can be a wonderful way for all
the youth specially this time that more on young ones are only spending more time in their
gadgets because we are only in online class. By this we can offer this activity to them so that we
can distract children and lessen the used of gadgets knowing that it’s not really good in the kids
to be more on using technologies. And also, we can teach them that with hard work,
determination, the benefits can be great. In investing some time and energy they could have
grew something to eat. I've learned that by growing our own garden we could help to reduce
the amount of harmful chemicals that is polluting our environment and waterways, just for a
simple activity as a citizen we could take part to help our environment.
I have seen that there is really an improvement in my garden right now. Its finally growing well
and it is really healthy. The difficulties that I have encounter this week is that I really don't have
a lot of time to take care of my garden it’s because I am busy with many activities that I have
involved with specially that I am working also whole day from Monday to Saturday and I just
give time with my study and after my class back to reality but then I am trying to really control
and still learning to know how I can manage my time. But I am thankful that I have my parents
with me who help me with this project. They are the one who take care of it while I am busy
with my activities in school, with my personal matters and in my work.

This week I think I can give more time with my garden because I am not really that busy this
time. I can take good care of it every morning, I can water my plants properly, I can clean my
garden well, can protect it from animals, and can check the health of my plants just thrice a
week or check it every day.

We knew that our weather today is very unexpected, there is a time that it would rain and there
is a time that its very hot. That's why we really need to take care of it properly, for us to know
that our garden is in a healthy condition and maintain it clean and keep away from any animals
that would damage your garden. So, we should do morning watering because that is actually
preferable to evening watering as the plant has time to dry before the sun goes down. At night
water tends to rest in the soil, around the roots, which it would encourage insects.
This week I could really say that my garden is growing into a healthy one. Even though I am
busy with my work specially that I have a multiple task in the past weeks I could still visit my
garden to monitor it. I clean it every week during Sunday to make sure that it will really grow
properly. Everything was perfect, they are all healthy. Actually, we get some of it to ate last
night, it was really helpful and could really gave us also a healthy life style.

The difficult things that I have encounter this week is that, the ducks and the goat in our farm
are freely to go anywhere in the area. I already tried to put some cover on it but they really also
tried to ruined it, that's why I told my parents to tie our goats away from my garden so it can't
cause damage at all. And now everything is good my plants won't be disturbed anymore. My
parents also help me to take care of my plants, they sprinkling some water into it so that the soil
won't dry specially the weather today is unpredictable, so it really needs to check it every time.
And I'm glad that my parents were also there to take care of it.

In this coming week I actually prepared everything, there is no problem that I would probably
encounter because our animals are already put in their own place so there are no worries at all.
My parents are always there to take care of it and I have tried to visit it every Sunday because
that's the only day that I am not busy with my whole day class and with my other activities in
life. Now I know that there is no worry for me to take care of my garden because I already have
my parent’s presence.
For this week it is very well good that my plants are growing into a healthy one. If I am busy
with my different activities, I have my parents also to take care of it. They help me to maintain
my plants to be healthy every time. In the past few weeks actually, we get some of it to make
food for our dinner. It really gives us a big help, because it was really a good way to decrease
our expenses in buying some foods.

For this week so far, there is no problems and difficulties that I have probably encountered.
Because everything is fine the area is good and safe already. Just like what I have said if I don't
have enough time to visit my garden, I have my parents to do it for me. Specially this month
that I am so busy with my assignments, quizzes, exam, classes, work for the whole day and for
the upcoming fiesta in our place, and know that I am the DYA president and it was really so
busy and I can't spend time with my garden anymore. But I'm happy that everything is well
that there are people who really help me to still make my garden into a healthy one.

How can I improve my garden next week maybe I should give time to it just a second, but I am
surely that after this semester and all the assignments, many quizzes, exam and activities that I
am engaged right now I could spend more time to take care of my garden, like sprinkling water
and to clean the area everyday just in a seconds of time. Because I know this garden really helps
us to maintain ourselves to be healthy also by making this as our food maybe in morning or in
the evening.
 IV. Realization and Outcome of the Activity

There is only one thing that I have realize in this activity and that is teaching myself to be ready in times
of crisis and also, helping my parents to provide as food to eat even though in just a little way of planting.
I am very happy that I have experience this way during this pandemic, because I am not really into
planting vegetables and any kinds of plants but this activity gives me lots of realizations, actually this
helps me during I joined pageant competition here in Tagum City where I used this as my project
proposal.

This activity is really helpful to every student even though we are not doing this together because of
pandemic but it is helpful in a way that, this makes students to participate and engaged their selves into
planting by making this as an exercise for themselves and not just facing with their computer’s and other
kind of gadgets. The outcome of this activity was really successful, even though this activity is required in
every student as a project but in the end the result will always be worth it because there is something you
can harvest in times that you are in need and you really exert some effort to make it successful.

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