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Urban Gardening: A Resiliency amidst Pandemic

The “urban gardening,” or “urban agriculture” or “urban farming,” is the process of growing plants of all types and varieties in an urban environment (Ganz, 2020). With the previous outbreak of pandemic which brought food insecurity and changes on food consumption among urban settlers in the Kidapawan City. The researcher aimed to determine the level of success of urban gardening and the level of food consumption after the implementation of urban gardening. Addition, it also aims to find out its relationship. A self-made questionnaire was used to gather data. The respondents of the study were the residence of Kidapawan City. They were selected through purposive sampling. The researcher personally administered the survey to the target respondents. The data were analyzed and interpreted using Pearson r Momentum Correlation. The data revealed that the level of success of urban gardening and the level of food consumption after implementation of urban gardening were rated high. This indicates that urban gardening has great effects to their living as perceive by respondents during pandemic. Furthermore, the results show that there is very high positive correlation between level of success and level of food consumption after implementation of urban gardening. Thus, null hypothesis was rejected.