Edgard Raul Leoni Moreno: Benefits of a Communal Vegetable Patch

The Ainco Foundation and its president, Edgard Leoni, suggest the use of communal vegetable patches since is highly beneficial for the neighbors.

Nowadays, pollution has reached farm-field products due to the use fertilizers and pesticides with harmful chemical substances, which makes imperative to find alternatives to have healthier produce. An excellent option for this is the communal vegetable patch. 

 In these patches you can sow vegetables, and fruits without chemical products, that is, ecologically. Neighbors gather to sow, take care, and distribute everything to the community.  

The Ainco Foundation, and Mr. Edgard Leoni, point out some of the benefits these patches have on the communities:

Food from patches are green

1. - They give green spaces: Instead of abandon spaces filled with contamination and garbage, you can have a green area that embellishes the community, and connects it with nature.

2. - It allows the community to reduce contamination: Plants produce oxygen and absorb CO2, making the environment cleaner.

3. - A way to learn: Especially for children and teenagers controlled by technology, they learn the importance of nature, and green sowing. 

4. - It is good for physical activities: Dedicating time to take care of the patch requires constant movement, which is a mild exercise, and it eliminates stress and idleness.

5. – It gives fresh ingredients: By not adding chemical substances, fruits and vegetables are fresh, meaning, a healthier life style.

A communal vegetable patch is a space for sharing

6. - It promotes union between neighbors Working together doing a beneficial and gratifying activity promotes bonding, and knowing more your neighbors.

7. – It reduces heat: Due to the high concentration of concrete in cities, temperature constantly rises since heat accumulates during the day, and is then released during the night when the temperature lowers. Green spaces such as communal patches reduce heat.

A green space is always beneficial

8. - It gives food supply: When you have a space that provides healthy and cheap food, expenses of vegetables are reduced, in addition, is a means to help neighbors with less economic resources.

9. - The community does not generate organic waste: Instead of throwing to the garbage fruit and vegetable peels, they can be used to make compost, and use it as fertilizer.

10. - Patches attract plague control bugs and animals: Vegetable patches attract pollinate insects such as bees, or plague control animal such as toads.

Communities should incorporate communal vegetable patches for all the benefits they provide to every member of the communities.