30 Village Women in Malang Grow Free Vegetable Packs for Pregnant Mothers and Toddlers

In Sananrejo village, Turen, Malang (East Java), a group of about 30 women led by Sri Setiowati runs a Kebun Gizi (nutrition garden) on 2,000 square metres with a nursery greenhouse, funded with Rp30 million from the Malang Regency agriculture office. They grow mustard greens, eggplant, broccoli, lettuce and chili, and raise catfish; about 100 kg of catfish were harvested two months before an August 2026 Mongabay report. Pregnant women and toddlers receive free vegetable packs of about 1 kg at health check-ups, alongside the health office's supplementary feeding. Stunted toddlers in the village fell from about 120 of 600 in 2020 to about 60 of 425 by November 2025, a village-wide trend the reporting does not attribute to the garden alone.