When you visit Harvest of Hope for the first time you realise how little you know of what is happening in our communities. It is also a confirmation of how much really can be done to create jobs for many unemployed people and at the same time provide fresh organic produce to thousands of people in impoverished communities. If you are in the Cape Town area, why not join … [Read more...]
Small is beautiful
An urban micro-farming project with 3000 home and community gardens on the Cape Flats offers a food security model for the country. We have been conditioned to believe that farming must be intensive and make large profits, that big is best and small is a waste of time. But an agricultural NGO working for 25 years on the Cape Flats has shown that good food and money can be … [Read more...]
Attack of the pigweed
This may sound like a 1950's B-grade horror, but the phenomenon is real. As more and more herbicide is sprayed on the genetically-modified monocultural wastelands of the world, resulting in plants developing immunity to the herbicide, the United States, where the experiment has been carried out for the longest, is suffering the worst of the consequences. Pigweed, and other … [Read more...]
