New Project Alert: Sowing seeds in Ezwenelisha

Support Group members Bheki, Gogo Togo and Gogo Joyce
plowing the land for the garden.

This week the volunteers and support group members broke ground at the new Ezwenelisha Support Group Garden. The volunteers and three of the group's members worked hard to get the land cleared so we can begin planting vegetables in the coming weeks.

As this is a garden managed entirely by the members of the support group we facilitate, they have control over when we garden and what we will be planting. The volunteers simply supply some extra labour and seeds to help speed up the process. The group has also decided that although not all the members are able-bodied (like Sizakhele, who has suffered a stroke), the crops harvested will be shared equally.

Some volunteers lending a hand by plowing the ground at
the Lifeline building.

The community organisation Lifeline has been generous enough to donate some land around the Lifeline Building where our support group takes place. This means the garden will be secure behind the locked gate and fence, as many of the members don't have their own vegetable patches for fear their crops will be stolen.

In the coming weeks the support group members have asked that we plant spinach, cabbage, tomato, onion and carrots, with plans to plant much more. We're excited to provide the group the opportunity to make their own produce, whether it be for their own consumption or to sell.