Responsible and careful management of homesteads with elements of cooperation

Rivne region

Svitlana Polishchuk united her neighbors for joint growing fruit and vegetable crops on their home plots of land in order to get better results together. The growing process is based on organic land use with effective advanced agricultural practices implementation, as well as on the principle of mutual support and cooperation. Thanks to this, the resulting harvest of high-quality, ecological products not only satisfies the needs of each member of the cooperative, but also allows receiving income from the sale of surpluses.

Svitlana is convinced that proper nutrition is the basis of human health and well-being. Work on the land accompanied the woman all her life. As a child, Svitlana helped her parents work on the homestead. Later, observing the growth of the crop became for her a source of relaxation from the main work. And over time, the homestead began to bring ecological products for the family and additional income from the sale of surplus crops.

«By cooperating with others, by rationally distributing forces and resources, you can get a greater return from the land than in the case of cultivating it independently. For us, the joint work of our neighboring community is an element of food security in times of economic instability — firstly because of the pandemic and now because of the war»