Grow Our Garden
Why Gardens?
Canada ranks 37th out of 41 wealthy nations in access to nutritious food for children. This is unacceptable.
Communities around the world and at home need gardens. This precious resource, in addition to the obvious nutritional benefits, empowers individuals, provides financial security, and reduces food insecurity.
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Carrots are super vegetables!
They are a great source of Vitamin A, K, and C. Vitamin A is essential in eye health and visual acuity! With all these health benefits, carrots are an essential part of a healthy diet.
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Tomatoes are a staple in kitchens throughout the world. Every cuisine has its own tomato history!
Tomatoes are rich in vitamins and minerals, and they have been linked to many benefits like reducing likelihood of heart disease, and improved skin health.
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Broccoli is a super vegetable!
It contains the flavonoid kaempferol, which is an anti-inflammatory, helps fight against cardiovascular disease, and has been shown to be preventative in adult onset diabetes. For these reasons, broccoli is an essential part of a healthy and nutrient-rich diet.
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Spiritually, physically, and economically, corn sustains indigenous peoples of Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
Corn is linked to survival: During rough economic times or in the face of natural disasters, rural families in these countries will produce more maize to feed themselves. Corn is strongly linked to culture: it is a daily staple for almost all families, as tortillas, something that is a part of almost every meal.
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In urban centres, peaches seem like an accessible fruit, that we can find in the supermarket almost all year round. This isn’t the case for everyone – peaches are a luxury in Northern Canada – a treat that is too expensive and unavailable for most residents. Candace of North Spirit Lake told us about the first time she ate a peach:
“When someone brought peaches into my community, it was the first time for most of us that we got to touch the softness of the skin, and the sweetness of the taste. For me, peach is a fine produce, a luxury. I wish I could eat a peach more often.”
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“You see just seeds, but I see the trees.” Seeds might be small, buried in darkness and dirt, but they represent the horizon of new life.
“I love planting seeds. With Action Against Hunger, we’ve learned how to plant seeds in the soil, and then we saw the plants grow, and learned how to care and respect the plants. Now I like to eat radishes because I know how they grow.” – Sam, Grade 5 student at Burrows Hall.
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Gardens take Action Against Hunger
Gardens feature in all aspects of our work: most obviously in our nutrition, food security and livelihoods programs but also in our water, sanitation and hygiene programs, as well as our emergency response programs. Read more about how we’ve grown gardens in over 25 countries.
IN OUR EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAMS
In our Emergency Response programs, we use gardens to ensure a balanced diet is possible for displaced persons living in refugee camps. Basic food rations are intended to keep people alive, but long term, they don’t provide balanced nutrition. By creating gardens and greenhouses in refugee camps, we can ensure families are able to provide nutritious meals to their children.
IN OUR NUTRITION & HEALTH PROGRAMS
In our Nutrition & Health programs, we help communities grow communal edible gardens next to our treatment centres so that parents can have access to the fruits and vegetables they need to keep their children from suffering from malnutrition.
IN OUR WATER & SANITATION PROGRAMS
In our Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) programs, we protect household and community gardens by mitigating climate shocks due to flood and drought. We do this by building wells and water management canals. Pairing gardens with our WaSH programs means we can ensure that more families can benefit from gardens year-round, and not just in the rainy season.
IN OUR FOOD SECURITY & LIVELIHOODS PROGRAMS
In our Food Security & Livelihoods programs, we help households grow their own kitchen gardens. These gardens provide direct and convenient access to nutritious fruit and vegetables right next to their homes, but they also boost income through the sale of extra produce, and frees up income that would otherwise have been spent on expensive fruits and vegetables. We also grow demonstration gardens in this type of programming, an educational tool to introduce communities to planting and harvesting their own food and as an income generating activity.
IN OUR FOOD LITERACY PROGRAMS
In our Food Literacy programs, we use mobile gardens to teach how to grow and cook their own nutritious food, and equip them with life skills and healthy habits to create sustainable change for themselves and their communities.