Dagupan’s vegetable school garden is best in region
DAGUPAN City added another feather to its cap when its official entry to the ‘Gulayan sa Paaralan’ was adjudged the best implementer in Region 1.
The entry, Bonuan Boquig Elementary School, won first place while the Dagupan City National High School was adjudged third in the secondary level during the awarding ceremony last March 18 in Bauang, La Union.
Bonuan Boquig will now represent Region 1 in the national ‘Gulayan’ competition.
As this developed, Mayor Belen T. Fernandez encouraged nature and vegetable garden enthusiasts to visit the Bonuan Boquig Elementary School for an opportunity to appreciate bountiful harvests of organic vegetables with the help of the latest technology in gardening such as solar-powered aquaponics, hydroponics and aeroponics gardening.
One can find in the school all the vegetables identified in the song ‘Bahay Kubo’ and all highland vegetables like lettuce, cabbage and broccoli. With the school’s spacious greenhouse given by the Department of Agriculture as its prize for bagging first place, the school will soon grow carrots and strawberry.
The school, already surrounded by assorted varieties of vegetables, also maintains a small fish pond, a vertical tower garden with built-in vermin composter, greenhouse nursery, upo-ampalaya fly-over, urban containerized garden rotonda, mineral water gallons garden, tetra pots and bottles garden, hanging plastic pots, rubber boots garden, banana mushroom junction, school-made Christmas Tree frame and styrofoam box garden.
Fernandez said she is already discussing plans for the with the school officials.
The mayor congratulated school principals Manuel Ferrer and Erly Datario, Gulayan coordinator Diosdado Cayabyab, and members of the PTA and Barangay Council of Bonuan Boquig headed by Kapitan Joseph Maramba for their all-out support in the program. (CIO)
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