Community Gardens Protect Bandung Basin

The 700 square meter plot, which is no longer planted with vegetables because of the lack of water supply, had been tilled for the previous week as the new planting season was coming.

KOMPAS/TATANG MULYANA SINAGA

Farmers rest after loosening dry land due to the dry season in Cimenyan, Bandung Regency, West Java, Tuesday (7/9/2021).

Community gardens with perennial plants have sprung up on the hills up the Bandung Basin. Their existence is seen a starting point for a wiser approach to the challenge of weather and climate problems in disaster-prone areas.

As morning was drifting to noon, Sukmana, 50, kept plowing the soil of a plot of land that had been turned a garden, in Cimenyan, Bandung regency, West Java, on Tuesday (7/9/2021). For three hours, he had been swinging his hoe to break up chunks of soil.