"Key of Solving Global Warming"

1. GARDENING "Key of Solving Global Warming"

2. Overview… • Global warming and Food Crisis • Gardening • Uses • Importance • Effects • Processes in making Garden • Outputs • Open Forum

3. Objectives: • Demonstrate and show how to make a garden • Communicate ways on how to improve the quality of soil

4. What is global warming?  Global warming is when the earth heats up. It happens when greenhouse gases trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere, which increases the temperature. This hurts many people, animals, and plants. Many cannot take the change, so they die.

5. What is a Food Crisis? At the most basic level, the recent food crisis has been caused by rising food prices around the globe. Listed here are a number of the underlying factors that have led to the soaring food prices of corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, and other crops throughout the past year: • Rising price of oil • Demand for biofuels • Low grain reserves • Market speculation

6. Gardening • Importance It is good to garden because you can give people food and then you can also have fun gardening because if you like gardening then it is fun but if you don’t like gardening you can just step on the plants so that gardening is fun for everyone.

7. Gardening • Importance From simple enjoyment of relaxing in gardens to gardening with friends, children and grandchildren to providing nutritious, delicious homegrown food, and the associated exercise and education provided by all such activities, gardening's benefits fit everyone. Good gardening practices provide stewardship and sustainability that are required for future generations.

8. COMMUNITY GARDENING  brings benefits to individuals, neighborhoods, communities and the cities they are part of.

9. INDIVIDUAL BENEFITS Health • by growing some of their own food, individuals and families have access to fresh, nutritious food and the mixed meals that support nutritional health • because it involves physical activity, community gardening promotes physical fitness and health.

10. Social benefits • community gardening is a social activity involving shared decision making, problem solving and negotiation, increasing these skills among gardeners • as places where people come together with a common purpose, community gardens are places where people get to meet others • as social venues, community gardens can be used to build a sense of community and belonging; community workers already use the gardens for these purposes.

11. Urban improvement • community gardens re-green vacant lots and bring vegetation diversity to public open space and other areas, making them a useful tool for urban improvement • by diversifying the use of open space and creating the opportunity for passive and active recreation, community gardens improve the urban environment • the diversity of plant types found in community gardens provides habitat for urban wildlife, increasing their value for improving the natural environment.

12. How to make a simple garden?

13. Step One: Site Selection

14. Start observing areas of your yard that look like they’ll work. A site that gets at least six hours of sun per day. You’ll also need to make sure that the site drains well. Consider placing it where you can enjoy it from inside your house as well.

15. Step Two: Creating the Plot

16. Decide on the size and shape of your new garden. You will need to completely clear the area.

17. Step Three: Amend the Soil

18. Digging of soil. Add plenty of compost pit. Enriching the fertility of the soil.

19. Step Four: Plant Selection and Planting

20. Select the vegetable. Plant the selected seed on the soil about 4 inches deep. Water it. Visit the garden everyday to check the progress of the plant

21. Outputs

26. Open Forum