Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has harvested fresh vegetables from her garden at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, renewing her appeal to Nigerians to embrace home gardening as a way to boost food security.
The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) disclosed in a post on X on Tuesday that the First Lady visited the garden on Monday for another harvest from the vegetable plot established about two years ago under the Every Home A Garden initiative.
The garden yielded vegetables including spinach, waterleaf and fluted pumpkin.
After the harvest, Mrs Tinubu shared some of the fresh produce with members of her staff and encouraged Nigerians to show kindness by giving to others.
The First Lady officially unveiled the Villa vegetable garden in July 2024 under her Renewed Hope Initiative to promote household farming and improve food security amid rising food prices.
The project was launched alongside the Every Home A Garden competition, aimed at encouraging women and families across Nigeria to cultivate vegetables in their homes.
Speaking at the launch, Tinubu explained that the garden was designed to demonstrate that even limited household spaces can be used to grow nutritious food while helping families reduce the cost of feeding.
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