Best Gulayan sa Paaralan search
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS
THE search is now on for the Best Gulayan sa Paaralan “Pagsasarili Project” for school year 2014-2015.
The evaluating team together with Mayor Belen T. Fernandez started visiting 39 public schools here, in both elementary and high schools, on February 23.
Gulayan sa Paaralan is part of part of the vision of Mayor Fernandez to make Dagupan a healthy and child-friendly city, where children are taught to have active role in attaining sustainability and food security in the community.
“Planting trees in our schools and in our homes is one way of promoting health and wellness to our children. Through the Gulayan sa Paaralan program, we are teaching our kids on the importance of eating healthy foods,” Fernandez said.
The Bonuan Boquig Elementary School was the 2014 Best Implementer of Gulayan sa Paaralan in Region 1 and the only school in the region with functional aquaponics and hydroponics. It is also the most featured school as far as innovation in school gardening is concerned and is considered as the home of the longest garden and ‘bahay kubo’ garden in the North.
It introduced innovative gardening by using different technologies and methods of gardening like hydroponics, airoponics, aquaponics, and solarponics.
The school also had its ‘la pechay’ lane where one can harvest pechay and labanos, an upo-ampalaya flyover, hanging mushroom garden, urban garden, the vertical tower with built-in vermin composter, a greenhouse, a ‘Bahay Kubo’ garden, a livestock and a vermin culture garden which the school uses in fertilizing the plants.
Manuel Ferrer, BBES school principal, said the success of the school’s gulayan wass due to the support and cooperation of the barangay officials, the Parents-teachers Association and the members of Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program (4Ps).
Joining Fernandez during the evaluation were Education Program Supervisors Diosdado Cayabyab and Venus Estonillo, Dr. Edwin Aguirre and Bert De Vera of the City Agriculture Office.
Present during the evaluation were ECES Principal Reynaldo Barrozo, BBES Principal Manuel Ferrer, Bonuan Boquig Punong Barangay Joseph Maramba, Dagupan PTA Federation president Imelda Gonzales, and other school officials. (Joseph C. Bacani/CIO)
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