The Salt River Nature Park Team in Cape Town has recently formed, with the amazing support of the people in this team, a Non-Profit Organisation called ‘Neighbourhood Gardens – Just Grow Food’. The mission is to grow gardens in the community and beyond that focus on producing organic nutritious food for people while providing habitat for indigenous plants and wildlife.

The first organic food garden has been built and was celebrated with the Official Opening on October 3rd 2020 – The Kipling Street Food Gardens in Salt River. The team transformed an unused, overgrown municipal lane into a food garden. The garden is maintained and harvested by the immediate neighbours, who eat from the garden and circulate any surplus into their immediate surroundings.

The goal of this project is to increase access to food for people, in a South Africa that is cringing under the heavy economical impacts of the COVID lockdown, with lots of people struggling to put food on the table. The bigger vision is to create a network of gardens in the community which will increasingly achieve the goal of feeding the people. At the same time these gardens are home to an array of indigenous plants which create habitat and food for the local insects, birds and other wildlife too.

Sunlight Academy is so proud and grateful to be able to support this wonderful project! With our professional coaches and trainers, we partner with the purpose to allow their team to expand and impact the society in a positive way.

For more details on the project: https://stiftung-bienenwald.de/bienenwald-international/

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