Practice Caring for the Earth by Gardening.
Organic, Intensive & Sustainable Vegetable Gardens in Cascais.
Please reach out if you need help creating an organic garden.
No-Till Gardening
Also called a no-dig garden, no-till is a gardening method where the soil is not disturbed. It is a way of keeping the carbon in the ground because digging releases carbon into the air, adding harmful gases and accelerating climate change.
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Economic, Social and Environmental benefits of Urban Agriculture
The economic benefits of urban agriculture include: generating jobs and supplementing household incomes.
Social benefits include improved food access, a more nutritious and diverse diet, and affordability. The producers and their consumers, the urban dwellers, consume fresh fruits and vegetables, regularly improving their diet and health.
Urban agriculture reduces hunger and achieves food security.
Greener environments create environmental benefits; greener cities create microclimatic conditions, reducing the urban heat island effect.
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Wildlife-friendly Urban Gardens
Biodiversity offers economic and environmental benefits through pollinators such as bees, butterflies, birds, and bats, contributing to natural ecosystems. Pollinator diversity depends on rich and varied vegetation within ecosystems.
Hydroponics, Soilless Growing
What is Hydroponics? It is a sustainable urban farming technology, where plants grow soilless in a greenhouse. Their roots hang in water with a rich mix of nutrients.
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Edible Gardens / Delicious front yards
The benefits of growing your own organic fruits and vegetables are numerous:
- You save money.
- Produce less waste.
- Know where your food came from, resulting in a smaller carbon footprint.
- Connect with nature.
- Feel pride and create a learning environment for your kids.
Additionally, consuming homegrown produce from organic farming provides fresh, organic, local, nutritious, and delicious vegetables straight from your garden.
If you like to improve the look of your garden, sunflowers are a great way to do so!
-Wildlife loves them; they attract and feed pollinators and birds.
-Their deep roots help to break up compacted urban soils,
-They are drought tolerant; this is an essential fact in the hot Portuguese climate
-They remediate urban soil contaminants - absorb toxic heavy metals – lead, arsenic, zinc, and uranium from the soil.
-They are excellent compost crops, adding carbon to the soil.
Multiple Benefits of Sunflowers
How about planting more of these beauties?
