Agricultura urbana: o caso da Horta do Pestano - Pelotas / RS.

Abstract

The use of idle spaces in Brazilian urban areas by initiatives that seek to overcome and overcome difficulties presented by their social realities is becoming increasingly evident, it is important to understand these mechanisms. This writing seeks to analyze the potential of the activities carried out in the “Urban Horta of Pestano, in the municipality of Pelotas / RS”, as initiatives to resist and strengthen alternative practices of food production and consumption, as well as to promote a debate of these practices in the context of Geographical education. The research is based on oral history methodology, where the oral histories of (eight) volunteer of the urban garden of Pestano, in the neighborhood Três Vendas in the municipality of Pelotas, were analyzed.It was verified that in the practices carried out daily by the volunteers there is an attachment to the popular knowledge and to the affective ties built there with the volunteer work, besides establishing connections with the geographic education, even if informal. Based on these results, we can conclude that these initiatives, loaded with unique knowledge linked to a geographical education of informal context, produce in these spaces another conception of development and construction of affective bonds, characterizing with this the construction of a mechanism of overcoming obstacles imposed by inequality, found in their life contexts in the Três Vendas neighborhood.