UTILIZATION OF HOME HOUSING TO SUPPORT CONDITION FOOD SECURITY PANDEMI COVID-19

The outbreak of the Corona outbreak and the spread of Covid-19 disease have affected the order of our daily lives both socially and economically. In the Covid-19 emergency, we must be able to prepare food in our own home environment, because if we go outside or go to the market to buy food, we are afraid of the spread of the corona virus that is increasingly rampant in us. By seeing this condition, the extraordinary creativity that has been shown by housewives to create their own food by using the yard. Planting is done either through planting media from pots or some are planted through hydrophonic. Food supply is very much needed in the current condition. Efforts to provide food in the household are very limited because we must pay attention to health protocols. Therefore we must prepare food through planting in our own yards, so as to avoid the crowds of people. Yard is open land around the residence. This land if properly maintained will provide an attractive environment that is comfortable and healthy and pleasant so that it makes us comfortable staying at home.

We can use our yard in accordance with our tastes and desires. For example by planting productive plants such as ornamental plants, fruit, vegetables, spices and medicines. Planting productive plants in the yard will provide double benefits, one of which is physical and spiritual satisfaction.

If managed properly, the yard can provide benefits for family life such as: playground, recreation area, food source and also as a source of income. Utilization of garden land in both rural and urban areas can support national food security by empowering the local food potential of each region.

General yard functions:

a. Family food sources, such as vegetables, tubers, fruits and livestock and fish.

b. Source of medicines or live pharmacies.

c. Source of seasonings, cooking spices.

d. Source of organic fertilizer.

e. Source of beauty / Aesthetics.

Benefits of home gardens for families include:

1. Fulfillment of family nutrition: there are some plants, livestock and fish that can be raised in the yard and produce food that the family needs.

2. As tubers as a source of vitamins, while livestock and fish as a source of protein and fat.

3. As livestock barns: the results of the yard business can be taken at any time and there is no dry season.

4. Pharmacy life: the yard can be planted with a variety of nutritious medicinal plants, if family members at any time can be overcome temporarily with drugs in the yard.

5. Increase income: well-managed yards, the results can be sold as a source of family income because many commodities do not require large tracts of land to cultivate them.

6. Producing building materials: types of tree plants such as bamboo, coconut, jackfruit and other plants planted in the yard can be used as building materials and household crafts.

7. As a family recreation area: yards arranged and maintained regularly will provide beauty and a sense of peace for those who see it.

For that, let us use and beautify the yard by planting plants that can support the needs of the family.