Food Security South Africa Project #714

Micro-farming among the poor Cape Town

by Abalimi Bezekhaya - Planters of the Home

Project Report | Mar 25, 2024
A view from the Sky

By Rob Small | project leader

Moya we Khaya community garden

Dear GlobalGiving Friends

time has flown and i am late with this report., But all is well and the farmers are very busy with their summer crops

We took a picture from the air of one of our leading community gardens, called Moya we Khaya (spirit of home)

You can see how the garden is an oasis in a desert. And there are thousands of such oases all over the townships, in small home gardens and in bigger areas like this, feeding tens of thousands, creating livelihoods among the poor.

These micro-farms are also a refuge for local birdlife and flora!

We are deeply grateful for your interest and support.

Our last funding target was reached! We are now setting a new target and hope you will stay with us into the future. We work with at least 3000 micro-farmers every year so the project always continues.

We hope you are all well, wherever you may be.

With warm good wishes

Rob Small

P.S. come visit anytime, you are always welcome

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May 25, 2023
Wonder Full

By Robert Small | Co founder

Dear GG Friends, I am late with this report, apologies.

We are busier than ever! Saving and repairing lives and rebuilding sustainable food systems among many many thousands of urban poor.

Our training is in huge demand, as unemployment soars. We are now training around 1000 new farmers per annum! Up from an average of 300-500 p/a in the recent past. And unemployed young people continue to pour in, in ever greater numbers

Our low cost agri inputs (manure, seed and seedlings) are flying out of our Peopes Garden Centres like never before. People for the first time are arguing fiercely at our gates for more. There is a fiery urgency in the air, in the wider movement which we lead. This is a very good sign, as long as we keep stepping up our supply to meet demand.

And the Farmers have re launched Harvest of Hope (previously managed by our NGO) and are aggregating and selling many tons of top quality produce to the public, earning good money to support their lives. Harvest of Hope is now 100% Farmer driven, currently supplied by nearly 60 micro farms (home and community gardens all around), with a queue at their door of others wanting to join.

So, our peaceful Revolution, putting Good Food into stressed families tummies, and Good money in very many pockets, creating renewed hope and all round social and environmental health, is Multiplying apace.

Our example is still the Leading model countrywide and even Internationally recognized as such by many in the wider Movement of Regenerative Organic farming among the Poor.

And ALL of you, including our wonderful GlobalGiving staff and volunteers, help make this ongoing Revolution possible.

Thank you and bless you all. The Long walk to Freedom from poverty is unstoppable. The only question is... How soon will we arrive?

Watch this space.

All the very best to You and Yours. And come visit, anytime. You will leave super inspired. 100% guaranteed.

Rob....co founder

PS. I am having trouble uploading a Pic. I am working on my android and 4 some reason the pic I want won't upload. But please visit our website and FB and Insta pages for lots of images and updates. Many thanks! Chat again soon, I hope.

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Visit our website for updates

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Jul 23, 2022
No Joke

By Rob Ncinci (meaning Small) | co-founder

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