Eco-scaping and Sustainable Urban Micro Farming

*a square yard garden plot in an urban setting at Kangra Herbal and Botanical Garden (ecoSUMfarming)*

another small garden tach for onion planting being developed in our vegetable patch near traditional kitchen facility in the city (ecoSUMfarming) organic farming / urban farming / gardening — *another small garden tach for onion planting being developed in our vegetable patch near traditional kitchen facility in the city*

The Eco-scaping and Sustainable Urban Micro Farming (EcoSUMfarming) project is motivated by a simple objective to develop a simple, cheap, and replicable system for economically sustainable method of eco-farming / eco-gardening / eco-agriculture and eco-scaping in space restricted urban areas.

organic farming, kitchen gardening, microfarming, indian cities, conservation internship, NGO work — *traditional plants and fruit trees remain in the houses in the urban settings in some cities in middle Himalayas in northwest India*

It includes court-yard organic-farming, vertical gardening, nursery development and management, eco-scaping of empty spaces and conservation work at the degrading public spaces around in the urban area.

Urban agriculture, urban farming, or urban gardening is also termed as the practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around urban areas. Urban and peri-urban agriculture is also the term used for animal husbandry, aquaculture, agroforestry, urban beekeeping, and horticulture.

Various concepts of ecological and sustainable urban micro-farming consists – Building-integrated agriculture, Ecological sanitation, Food-scaping, eco-scaping, Forest gardening, Green wall, Grow-bag, Grow-room, Guerrilla gardening, Intercultural garden, Market garden, Portable farm, Rooftop gardens, Sheet mulching, Underground farming, Urban horticulture, Urban forestry, Vertical farming, Window-farming, etc.

The notable outcomes include –

to scale-up sustainable landscape management
to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions
to create some level of food, water, and energy security
to provide varying levels of economic and social development
to develop social networks and social movement on a shared ethos of nature and community holism
to promote the culture of green spaces, restore, reuse and reduction through ecological waste management
to contribute to water conservation, recharging and sanitation
to undertake soil conservation and landslide prevention activities
to promote eco-buildings, eco-structures and eco-constructions

EduCARE India

A grassroots sustainable development NGO

Eco-scaping and Sustainable Urban Micro Farming