G7 -- Urban farming to school curriculum

First Idea! – Urban farming to school curriculum

We recognize an opportunity for promoting urban farming idea in child development. Some people say you cannot teach an old dog new tricks – let’s just call a new habit to mothering consumable plants in a small space or urban farming for children!

We think children are suitable targets where we can teach them these important green values (both planting and cashing). Children are change makers. They really are. Any household would go for anything from having new pet, paint new color in some of the rooms to accommodate child’s activities, or even urban farming should the children want it to. This is why we are convinced promoting it to children will leverage significant impact. Mathematically speaking, 1 child can change a family of 3 people to do urban farming.

Some schools already have a similar curriculum in the program. We think it fails to create sustain momentum or no impact. How do we know? Because most of us at some point in time had been taught home economics and simple farming techniques. But we had not extended these applications later on and so committed to even more greener areas in our lives. Therefore, we should take this opportunity to put a serious use to business practices and continue to provide the supports for anyone interested.

Let’s start from a child play. The curriculum we aimed to promote is to integrate home economics and urban farming's know-how to hobbies. Children should not only learn to grow plants but also learn to do simple home economics. That means they will derive the idea of market space and trades with their neighbors. And we are confident to give them the supports they need to be successful traders of home grown farming products. We are committed to connect people, authorities and agencies both from government related and the private sectors to support them. We believe it is a must to start building the idea and nurture the child’s activity in order to create sustain momentum. We need and as our tasks grow we must promote urban farming to today children’s activities so that one day we can live to see it grow larger to enterprise businesses and their supporting activities should also grow as well. We must act responsibly and accordingly to build the future of greener environment. We believe we can and many more will give us the supports and our today children can see a greener future – rich with supportive incomes and conservative. This is why we must all act today.