ZEPHYR FROM THE GREENS

LIZETTE JOY T.EUGENIO

(Topic: Urban Gardening)

Saturated toxic blows from the passing vehicles, the cacophony of beeps and crowds, and narrow spaces on your horizon are the daily picture in your senses if you reside in an urban area. With a concentrated and compressed land and population, the retailers in the market must import vegetables and fruits from other places that produce them, stacking the charges from the crops themselves, the transportation, and to the ones who transported them. As it arrived in the stalls in the market, its price is higher than the price in its vicinity. Seeing nothing but concrete walls and roads, the existence of urban gardening brings comfort against the sensory overload in these areas. Planting edibles or not in the walls, backyards, balconies, and even in the facades is possible. This agriculture hauls the goods underneath your roof and can even lessen the budget you're spending buying goods such as vegetables and fruits. With the continuous development of green lands, preserving the art of planting was even more difficult. With no more areas to plant, planting became more of a skill you should learn rather than a trivial thing for everyone. In light of that, urban gardening is a new way to bring the greeneries from the parks or farms down into your home. It is not solely beneficial to your everyday living but also to your lifestyle as it feels therapeutical similar to leisure when you're doing it, freeing yourself from the platitude picture of your surroundings.

-oOoThe author is Teacher III AT Tarlac National High School