Grow your own food
Home Gardening
You can grow your own food following step by step guides in the My Kana app.
How can you grow tomatoes or eggplant? When is the best time to grow them? My Kana app provides information on planting season, and everything you need to know when growing your crops. Even if you don't have enough backyard space for a garden, you can still grow your own food. Give Container gardening a try.
You can create a garden diary by taking notes and photos as your plants grow. This is a good way to showoff your garden to your friends and family, and inspire them to start their own gardens too.
Based on NFNC's book, "Grow Your Own Food", the home gardening component is now a living, interactive part of the My Kana app.
Planting Season
Fiji, and most South Pacific Island countries generally have two main seasons. Some crops can only be planted in one season, while some can be planted all year round. Step by step guides are provided to help users grow these crops.
Container Gardening
For those with limited land or those who want to start small, container gardening is a good start. Reuse old containers and bottles and turn them into sources of healthy, nutritious food.
Organic Methods
Fruits and vegetables are the most healthy when they are free of chemicals. My Kana provides simple organic methods that people can use to protect their plants and maintain the health benefits of these crops.
Track your garden
Take notes and photos and save them within the My Kana app. This is a good way to monitor the growth of your garden. You can use this to showcase your garden to your friends and family.
Pacific Agrihack
Dec 2018, Tonga
In 2018, our team put in a bid to compete at the Pacific Agrihack Lab event, organised by the CTA in Tonga as part of the Innov4AgPacific project. We proposed an extension to the My Kana app. In this extension we were going to add a home gardening component where people will have access to basic home gardening instructions.
Two of our team members, Dr Irene Yee Chief and Ateca Kama were successful in their bid and we were awarded a 5000 Euro grant to develop the Home Gardening component.
We are thankful to Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) for the funding and technical support they provided.