Implantação de horta comunitária em escola localizado no sertão Paraibano

Urban Farm DB summary

This is an internship report from the IFPB Sousa campus's farm school (Unit II) in São Gonçalo, Sousa municipality, Paraíba, Brazil, a region classified as BSh (hot semi-arid) under the Köppen system where evaporation exceeds precipitation, mean annual rainfall is 654 mm (concentrated January-June), mean temperature is 28°C and mean humidity is 64%. In beds measuring 1 m by 5 m, lettuce (spaced 0.25 x 0.20 m), chives (0.25 x 0.15 m), coriander (0.15 x 0.05 m) and bell pepper (0.8 x 0.50 m) were grown, with productivity measured by harvest weight for chives and coriander and by count for pepper and lettuce. Coriander proved the most important crop over the trial period, followed by pepper; chives and lettuce were less prominent but were noted as important in food preparation.