Hello, students. Now you will have the opportunity to read, and listen to a Health and Lifestyle article in American English. You are encouraged to carefully read the article and the vocabulary words, as well as listen to the article. Finally, you are invited to share what you learned by writing a short summary of the article in the comments section below.
Directions: Read the article and study the vocabulary below.
Directions: Listen the audio recording of the article.
Directions: Share what you’ve learned from the article by writing a short summary in the comments section below.
Lesson 2.36.3 Year 2
Health and Lifestyle
” City Gardening Expands in the U.S. during Pandemic”.
All over the world, lifestyles changed during the CORONA-19 Pandemic. It changed the way of working, almost all types of work are going online. The Bronx’s farm hubs are part of an urban gardening movement across the country. They are finding to empower their people by encouraging them to grow their own food when the Pandemic hitted Urban forming expanded wildly and became highly productive… read more,
Ron Emely of Los Angeles has been gardening in the city for several years, He said, ” Growing your own food is like printing your own money”. A huge number of Americans who live in the neighborhood have little access to healthy food, that’s why they have high rates of diseases and unhealthy food is everywhere. In the Bronx, Karen Washington said, ”Healthy food is a human right along with clean water”. Washing said COVID-19 made a lot of people grow food if are going to fight. We need to start eating healthily…read more,
When the Pandemic hit Bronx Green-Up (BGU) arranged online meetings to help solve the issue and BGU
provided more than 10,000 small herbs and vegetable plants.
”Alice Bryant adapted this Article from Associated Press for English Learning students”.
Greetings to all
Health and Lifestyle. Article
City Gardening Expands in the U.S. during Pandemic
On pieces of unused land in the Bronx, gardeners from many neighborhoods work together to make more than 12 farm hubs. The gardeners are combining efforts for their community gardens and harvests. Profits from the sales are reinvested in their communities.
Throughout the pandemic they are producing leafy green vegetables and root crops like garlic, and also are learning from the pandemic so that they become [truly] resilient.
The Bronx’s farm hubs are part of an urban gardening movement across the country. The gardeners are seeking to empower their communities by urging them to grow their own food. That’s empowering is about more than food.”
Millions of Americans live in neighborhoods without healthy food. And unhealthy fast food is everywhere. In the Bronx, Karen Washington has spent several years pushing urban farming forward. “Healthy food is a human right, along with clean water”. She is a member of the supervisory group from the New York Botanical Garden and has
assisted neighbor-hoods in starting community gardens. Washington says COVID-19 made a lot of people want to grow their own food. “If we are going to fight viruses,” she said, “we need to start eating healthy.”
Through its Bronx Green-Up program, or BGU, the New York Botanical Garden has long offered support to community gardens and provided more than 10,000 small herb and vegetable plants. Early in the pandemic, the program leaders realized “that food insecurity has always been a big issue in the Bronx,” says Ursula Chanse, the program’s director.
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