GREENING LANDSCAPES IN A NEW NORMAL PERIOD

Covid 19 pandemic is a very good momentum in efforts to increase creativity at home, especially to green the yard, especially in urban areas. Several Higher Education institutions have held many webinars on various topics related to agriculture in the Covid-19 era. The Agroecotechnology Study Program of the Faculty of Agriculture of Udayana University has also held a Webinar on "Opportunities, Challenges and Urban Agricultural Technology in the Middle of the Covid Pandemic, 19, as well as the Agribusiness Study Program held a webinar on" Opportunities and Challenges of Sosong New Normal Agriculture, as well as many other tertiary institutions hold a webinar like this. One of the materials presented in the webinar is about tourism collapse, fainting agriculture. Other presenters are of the opinion that the supply of agricultural products, especially vegetable horticulture, fruits is very down even not in hotels or restaurants, but for household needs is increasing. This opportunity is very suitable if while working from home, taking advantage of the yard as much as possible so that it becomes green containing various types of plants such as vegetables. The slightest land can actually be used to create ecological, economic and educational factors.

               In urban areas, the air is generally less clean, due to the high volume of motor vehicles, cigarette smoke, kitchens and others, therefore planting plants in the yard is one way that is able to clean the water, because plants function as the function of the world. Besides growing a variety of vegetable plants in the yard of the house can produce food to eat or sell, and other to learn gardening at home, especially in narrow spaces for people other than farmers, especially at times like facing this pandemic Covid-19 and undergoing the New Normal order

               Limited land does not hamper creativity to produce something, especially to produce daily needs such as kale, spinach, mustard greens that can be harvested in more or less 21 days. Vegetable crops harvested from the yard have the advantage of minimal chemicals and chemical fertilizers because the cultivation in the yard is not pesticide, and the media is also added with organic fertilizer. Besides that, the harvest of vegetables in the yard is always fresh, because it is harvested when you want to cook it. So the freshness of the crop becomes more value from this technique, because it grows at home and is directly picked to be processed into food. Besides that, utilizing a narrow yard becomes one of the uniqueness of the concept of urban agriculture, and greening that is not yet green so that it can refresh the surrounding water.

               Activities that can be done to green the yard, including planting plants both vegetables and ornamental plants with a variety of technologies that already exist, such as verticulture systems. Verticulture is a vertical farming technique by arranging plants from the bottom up. Verticulture planting can be done with polybags, used buckets, pipe pipes or hanging. This technique is the same as conventional farming techniques in general, namely by using a medium mixed with compost or if there is husk charcoal, just put it vertically which distinguishes it from conventional techniques in general. Planting with various hydroponic techniques can also be done vertically.

               Greening the yard can be done starting from preparing the planting media, nurseries, and plants. Nurseries don't have to be done at home, because ready-made seeds can be bought at seedling shops, or there may be seed donations from organizations that are concerned with farming conditions during the 19th August. One organization that is concerned with the state of agriculture in the 19th period was the Student Organization of the Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University in collaboration with the Bali Planting Alone and Food Solidarity Alliance. Making seeds of various types of vegetables. Nursery of various types of vegetables has been carried out in the Experimental Garden of the Faculty of Agriculture, Udayana University and the results are donated or distributed free of charge to households / urban communities to be planted in the yard.

               The benefits derived from this activity are mainly to meet the food and nutritional needs of families and communities through optimizing the sustainable use of the yard. In addition, it can also increase the ability of families and communities in the use of yards in urban areas by cultivating food plants, fruit, vegetables and family medicinal plants (toga), and in the end this activity can sustain family welfare and create a sustainable and healthy environment.