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Developing Hi-tech Applied Agriculture towards Sustainability 420 and Efficiency: A Case Study in Thai Nguyen Province Ta Thi Thanh Huyen |Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Humanities & Social Sciences 2017 (IC-HUSO 2017) 2nd-3rd November 2017, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Thailand IC-HUSO 2017 370 Urban Gardening: Individual Homes Perspective Towards Square Foot Gardening Hassanal M. Ampang, Kent E. Barcelo, Rochell Mae N. Rojero, Michael Joseph F. Boniao and Dr. Michael Art R. Napoles Department of Technology Teacher Education, College of Education, MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, Philippines [email protected] Abstract This study was conducted in order to determine the level of awareness of the residence of Purok Mabination in Ubaldo Laya, Iligan City on the square foot gardening. Thirty-two (32) residences were randomly selected with the use of sloven formula in getting the sample size. The result shows that majority of the respondents are aware that square foot gardening on their individuals’ homes have a significant contribution as an alternative source of food for their daily consumption . There is no significant relationship also between the socio economic status of the respondents and their level of awareness towards the square foot gardening. This implies also that the age, gender, monthly income, area’ s space, family members, and livelihood has no relationship on the perception of the respondents towards the square foot gardening. Keywords: Gardening, Square foot gardening, Urban Gardening 370 Proceeding of 13th International Conference on Humanities & Social Sciences 2017 (IC-HUSO 2017) 2nd-3rd November 2017, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Thailand | IC-HUSO 2017 371 Introduction Now a day in urban areas, urban gardening is a process of growing plants of all types and variety in an urban area. This guarantees the consumers that the plant that they are going to eat is fresh, more natural and healthier than any saleable product from the market. Urban gardening as defined by Jen Wallace (2014). Urban gardening and farming are mishmashes of techniques and approaches to growing and raising food in densely populated urban centers. Because of the very nature of cities, there’s not a one-size-fits-all approach, but rather a plethora of solutions and practices that are undertaken by individuals, communities, cooperatives and businesses alike. A restaurant may grow their own herbs in an indoor garden, a neighbourhood may take over a vacant lot for a raised bed garden, a cooperative may keep bees for honey on the roof, or a family may plan a container garden for a patio–all are examples of urban gardening. Instead of the long-standing practice of trucking in the food to cities, city dwellers are taking matters into their own hands to produce local and sustainable food. Due to the exponentially increase of the population in a single country, the demands of the people in consuming good vegetable are also growing but the supply of this products cannot meet the demands of the total population of the country. Because of this, there are common rural farmer suppliers are also found some solutions to this problem by using alternative ways to produce sufficient amount of supply by spraying chemicals like synthetic pesticides that can damage our brain and nervous system, disrupt our hormones and contribute to cancer and even washing the vegetables does not completely remove the pesticide residues. Aside from that, urban gardening is not a big deal for some people who are very dependable on market products; they have forgotten the essence of good well-being and healthier body. Due to ignorance and lack of experience, the people of the society suffers nutrient deficiency, despite of consuming some food products that have some preservative ingredients this are not enough to provide the right amount of vitamins. Due to chemical dependent product from the markets give no advantage to the consumers. This problem should not be tolerated for any reasons that’s why dweller must decide whether what is needed to be done or what is not. The importance of this study is it gives insights and realization to the future researcher and readers and to encourage the people to be somehow dependent in urban gardening as it can also help to sustain enough amount of vitamins and minerals that human needs. Some urban dwellers grow their own food for health benefits, by eating fresh harvest and spending more time outside doing physical work with soil (Ross & Haynes, 1988; Scully et al. 1998). Hence, urban vegetable gardening has the potential to improve well-being of gardeners along a variety of dimensions. In addition, urban agriculture provides social benefits due to the emergence of opportunities to cooperate with other individuals, exchanging their produce with others, and by meeting new people who have common interests. Urban agriculture contributes to local economic development, poverty alleviation, the social inclusion of the urban poor and women, as well as to the greening of the city and the productive reuse of urban wastes (World Bank s and know-how of food production and impacts of food production on the natural environment. 371 Proceeding of 13th International Conference on Humanities & Social Sciences 2017 (IC-HUSO 2017) 2nd-3rd November 2017, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Thailand | IC-HUSO 2017 372 The study only aims to determine the level of awareness of urban gardening and its contribution to the urban society, the immeasurable reliance of market products that is exclusively for and enough to sustain the demands of the urban vegetarian residents. Theoretical Framework The underpinning theoretical framework of this study is Demographic Theories. These theories were proposed by Carl Sauer (1889-1975), an American geographer. These theories postulate that the increase in human population is hampered by the carrying capacity of the natural environment in supplying food. With further increase in population, the food that the wild naturally supplies became too insignificant. Marxist theory, capitalist try to corrupt the minds of the toiling masses and poison them with their reactionary “values”, they want to “convince” workers that gardening is a great pleasure and thereby to keep them busy in their leisure time and to prevent them from making the proletarian revolution. To garden is therefore to participate in the great plot aiming at the ideological deception of the masses, do not garden. String Theory for Plants,(2006), Many climbing plants use barbs, tendrils, or rootlets to attach themselves to the structures they ascend, but so-called twining plants simply wind themselves around a support and stay there without any adhesive tricks. In the 3 November PRL, researchers offer a mechanical model of how the free tip of a twining stem can hold onto a smooth support, allowing the plant to grow upward. The model also explains why these vines cannot grow on supports of too large a diameter. A twining plant can’t hold up its own weight, so it wraps around a vertical support. As the vine pulls itself up, it generates tension along its stem, as in the taut rope of a mountain climber scaling a cliff. But botanists haven’t explained how, if the growing tip is not attached, the vine can sustain tension, allowing a “pulling” force with respect to the roots. Another puzzle, noted by botanists dating back to Charles Darwin, is that these plants can’t wrap around supports that are too fat, like a large tree trunk. Schematic Diagram Dependent Variable Urban residents’ level of awareness Independent variables • Availability • Area’s space • Monthly income • Number of family • Level of interest • Livelihood Fig. 1. Schematic Diagram of the Conceptual Framework of the Study 372 Proceeding of 13th International Conference on Humanities & Social Sciences 2017 (IC-HUSO 2017) 2nd-3rd November 2017, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Thailand | IC-HUSO 2017 373 Statement of the Problem This study aims to know the significant effect and importance of urban gardening in every individual resident, with respect to the following questions: 1. What are the profiles of the respondents according to the said variable? 1.1 Availability (respondents time) 1.2 Area’s Space 1.3 Monthly income 1.4 Number of family members 1.5 Livelihood 2. What is the perception of the respondents in terms of putting up a garden? 3. Is there a significant relationship between the socio economic profile of the respondents and their level of awareness towards the square foot gardening? Hypothesis There is no significant relationship between the socio economic profile of the respondents and their level of awareness towards the square foot gardening. Method This chapter presents the research methodology of the study. It contains the research design, population and sample, research locale, respondents of the study, research instrument, data gathering procedure, and statistical treatments that were used to analyze the data. Research Design This study used the descriptive research design. According to Glass & Hopkins (2001), the term descriptive research refers to the type of research question, design, and data analysis that will be applied to a given topic.