Micro-farming among the poor Cape Town

Dear GlobalGiving Friends, greetings and salutations from Cape Town!

I hope you are all well and safe during these Covid times.

Here is a picture of some wonderful fresh organically grown surplus produce which is grown by a family in Khayelitsha. 

Mostly home gardeners grow just for their own needs, to feed their families and households. Any small surplus that they harvest is often given away to neighbours and friends. This is wonderful in itself because such gardens create enhanced fresh food security for the families concerned, as well as build and cement community bonds between friends and neighbours.

But, where a family has some extra ground space, it can also happen that they are able to produce a regular and even abundant surplus, as shown in the pic. 

This family takes their surplus and markets it in far away Seapoint, on the Atlantic seaboard where middle income people live. Thus they make much needed cash that strengthens their household economy where most of them are too young to work or are unemployed. 

So, dear Friends, your support continues to make magic happen here among the poor and unemployed in Cape Town. A new culture of gardening among the poor is growing up, which is spreading and sprouting (literally!) far and wide. The sandy desolation of the apartheid townships is gradually being transformed into green oases of hope and health all over the place.

Thank you for your ongoing support and interest! Without you we could not continue to do this vital work.

Very best and warm regards

Rob