Secure food from families' backyards
Feed Back is a vegetable exchange program for the entire community. The program invites families to farm in their backyards and exchange their excess harvest with their neighbors.
How does it work?
1
Village leaders commit
They partner and commit funds to solve hunger, guarantee food security and put families on a self sustaining path.
2
They unite and get buy-in
Community leaders go door-to-door, invite families, and distribute seeds.
3
Families plant
They convert their backyards
into gardens and grow vegetables
for four weeks.
4
Exchange starts
On the 5th week, leaders launch the vegetable exchange in an open air, central area in each neighborhood.
Belinda, 65
Turda's Super-lola (grandma)
Feed Back Manager
What happens during the exchange?
The exchange takes place once a week for at least 8 weeks.
Give and take
Families bring at least three kinds of vegetables and take home their fair share of over 20 kinds.
Values contribution
and creates fun
For every $1 worth of veggies families get a raffle ticket and
a chance to win a fun prize.
Vegetables are pooled then divided fairly among Feed Back families.
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Through Feed Back's 16-week time frame, ARK guides
and supports community leaders and program managers
to set goals, create operational plans, solve structural issues,
and track impact.
Families solve hunger in 5 weeks
Families source food in their backyards.
Farmers have diverse crops.
Fisherfolk can now farm.
Families produce excess and gain new sustainable income
They sell excess to nearby villages and towns.
Feed Back creates
food security and self-reliance
No need to import food from afar.
Feed Back unites
the community
Brings joy.
Engages the youth.
Fuels mothers to become entrepreneurs.
Inspires the families to invest in each other.
Feed Back is sustainable
With pandemic lockdowns, fisherfolk in Sto. Niño couldn't fish.
Families experienced hunger.
Village Kapitan Erning wanted to solve
that and get families new income.
He rallied his community to do Feed Back.
