Home gardens can transform ‘hungry’ homes
http://www.yourcommonwealth.org/social-development/health-safety-wellbeing/home-gardens-can-transform-hungry-homes/ Growing food at home has benefits beyond providing nutritious food, writes Bhagya Wijayawardane, 28, a Correspondent from Colombo, Sri Lanka. She’s working to bring home gardens to marginalised urban residents. As part of the local effort to fight food insecurity, eliminate vitamin A deficiency and nutritional blindness, and to improve physical growth among school children and infants in Sri Lanka, I founded a community organization named ESHKOL. Today, ESHKOL implements a home gardening and nutrition education project in Sri Lanka. The initial test was carried out at my home roof top to fight boredom and continue to enjoy my food cravings after a long career break. Gradually, it turned out to be a pilot project that was intended to see whether promotion of low-cost vegetable gardens combined with nutrition education might be a viable strategy for improving the n