The Goducate model farm in Laguna is being expanded by another 5000 sq meters. The existing farm has been fully planted with vegetables and there has been a need to expand the farm for some time.
The purpose of this farm is to help our workers to learn how to grow vegetables in small sustainable plots, so that they can then teach needy people to grow vegetables in their own backyard (or frontyard) plots in our Veg@table projects. The food produced on this farm also provides food for the full-time Goducate trainees who are being trained there and who live there.
The Veg@table projects in various poor communities have been slow to take off because of lack of water in these communities in the previous few month. Another limiting factor has been the lack of workers who are trained in this form of agriculture. This expansion will help solve this problem.
