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Stube HEMAT Garden: Integrated Learning Site

By Trustha Rembaka.          The initiation of a garden and learning site in Gunungkidul is one of Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta's steps to apply theory and practice from its programs, such as food diversity, water use, integrated agriculture, and social entrepreneurship. Students and whoever can learn while doing practise here according to the topic of interest. Some of the learning platforms include integrated agriculture, such as diversity of food crops by planting crops based on the harvest, such as harvesting roots in the form of cassava and spices; harvesting stalks such as sugar cane; harvesting leaves such as mustard greens, spinach, cassava leaves, kale, and katuk ; harvesting flowers such as papaya and kecombrang ; harvesting fruit, such as eggplant, tomatoes, chilies, long beans, and loofah. Another learning facility is a tarpaulin pond for raising fish as a source of food and protein, while the water can be used to water plants. Why use tarpaulin? It addresses the chal