Edukasi Konservasi Tanaman Berkhasiat Obat Pada Pekarangan Minimalis Masa Pandemi Covid-19 di Kelompok PKK Desa Mapanget

Abstract

This community service activity aims to utilize minimalist yards to supply their living needs, especially medicinal plants that function to maintain and increase body resistance to support government programs to overcome the Covid-19 Pandemic. The priority problems of the community (PKK group in Mapanget Village, Talawaan District, North Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi) are the lack of knowledge, insight, and skills of the community, especially housewives in conserving medicinal plants in minimalist gardens, and there are still many unused lands in the community minimalist yard. The method of implementing this community service activity are carried out through five stages, namely counseling, training, mentoring, evaluation, and monitoring. The result of this activity is that 92% of the community (40 women members) who participated in this activity showed increased knowledge and insight, as well as improving community values through education on the conservation of medicinal plants in minimalist yards during the Covid-19 pandemic. Conservation of medicinal plants in minimalist gardens can help families to obtain traditional medicines very easily, practically, and economically.