Urban gardens · VBGEA · DARD
Backyard farmers
Resilience begins at home
Country mo Gavman I stap wetem you — in the yard behind the house.
Urban farmers are not outside this platform. A Freshwota cabbage bed is a Mama Graon plot — GPS, Agriculture ID, pest photo, officer in minutes — same spine as a commercial taro lot.
VBGEA
Vanuatu Backyard Garden Empowerment Association
Also known among members as Vanuatu Backyard Farmers.
Promote backyard gardens as a welcoming place in urban and rural households — resilient people, organic gardening, food security, learning and healthy food.
DARD has publicly partnered with VBGEA on urban backyard gardens in Port Vila, peri-urban areas, schools and churches (reported 2024). Mama Graon carries those gardens on the same farmer spine. Association onboarding: [TO CONFIRM].
- Register the household garden — backyard tag, not a second app.
- Mama Graon AI counts plants on 0.04 ha and names the next cut.
- Surplus island cabbage can be booked at Tagabe. The rest feeds the family.
- When the garden is ready, the same ID steps up to commercial production.
Backyard garden — urban Port Vila
Janet Tarip
0.04 ha · Backyard
Expected 28 kg
Booked surplus 8 kg
AI: first cut is due. Keep two beds for the household.
Same ladder
From the backyard to commercial production.
Step 01
See the plot
GPS the backyard or the commercial lot. Mama Graon calculates the area. Small is still a farm.