THE coronavirus disease pandemic has somehow failed to dampen Negrense spirits as people chose to live productively rather than drowning their precious time to idleness.
The province underwent the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) which was now downgraded to a modified general community quarantine (MGCQ). But a lot of people are currently used to staying home and engaging in chores that are more robust and safe.
Maychelle Caieso, a resident of Kabankalan City has encouraged her family to engage in backyard vegetable gardening during the ECQ up to the MGCQ time.
They made use of their time making their open and fertile farm fields located at Sitio Malasbalas, Barangay Orong, Kabankalan City, into a green garden.
Seeing fresh leafy vegetables growing well has triggered them to plant. They are enjoying the fruits of their labor considering that they are already assured of their home supplies and surprisingly have even attracted their neighbors to likewise buy fresh vegetables from their harvest for home cooking.
Cultivating farm fields is really delightful, said Maychelle as she could no longer notice the hours that passed by when they started toiling in the fields.
They started to plant kangkong (swamp cabbage), eggplant, and alugbati (identified as thick reddish-purple stems) in garden plots.
With such a breakthrough, they planted lettuce, cabbage, okra (shaped in ladies’ fingers), ampalaya (bitter gourd) and it again went well.
Maychelle plans to continue cultivating the fields so that they could produce more of the organic vegetables which can also be a means to generate returns out of their hard work.
Maychelle’s daughters Chesca and Ella and her mother Salome helped her every day in keeping their green garden.
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