Successful "Grow Your Own Food Program"

Grow Your Own Food and Eat Better

 

The "Grow Your Own Food Program" is being developed in a very poor area in southern Santa Catarina, a state in southern Brazil, involving low-income families and helping them get out of  malnutrition and bad eating habits.

The photos taken at one of those families' yard speak for themselves. The effort and dedication of both the families and their instructors have begun to show the first results.

The families who have joined the program are certainly eating better. This will lead to other effects, i.e., better health, higher self-esteem, more social development.This initiative, although not unprecedented, may be replicated everywhere and used to help other communities to grow their own food and live a better life.