1. It puts school lessons into practice and can boost children’s interest in
agriculture
Urban agriculture gives students an opportunity to try things out at home and more so, put their
class lessons into practice. Through urban gardening, they easily connect their lessons to real-world
gardening and how it is done, thereby increasing their stock of knowledge about cultivating plants.
Furthermore, school-goers who are still young can find interest in agriculture and even later pursue
a course such as a degree in Agriculture when they experience cultivation through urban
gardening.

2. It can boost food security
Urban gardening increases the land area utilized for agriculture, thereby increasing food security as
the world population soar and arable land constantly facing depletion.
With urban gardening involving simple food crops such as vegetables and fruits, it can help reduce
the dependence of vegetable and fruit produce from farms or imported from other countries, thus
increasing available food for families and urban dwellers.
It also gives urban dwellers access to readily available foods that are rich in nutrients,
supplementing other food products. As a result, it can serve as a solution to food insecurity for the
future amidst the mounting concerns of how the billions of people on the planet will be fed.

3. Urban gardening is of economic importance and creates jobs
Urban gardening can make a city’s economic base expand by creating economic activities through
the production, packaging, and selling opportunities for food, vegetable, herbs, and fruit products.
As a result, jobs are created, the cost of food goes down, and people consume more quality foods.
A healthy community also translates to vibrant and hardworking people who can work towards
building the economy.
At the same time, considerably big urban gardens may require the services of gardening experts
thus creating new jobs.

4. It is of social importance and creates environmental awareness
Urban gardening allows individuals to socially interact, contributing to society’s social and
emotional wellbeing. It creates a sense of community participation for not only the community but
also individuals and families, making community events more possible and easier to work on.

Also since it involves matters of the environment, it bolsters environmental awareness through
aspects such as protecting soil fertility, ensuring air and water quality, protecting urban ecological
biodiversity, rainwater harvesting, water recycling, organic waste recycling, and green-neighborhood spaces.