As a reward for the hard work and dedication of 12 students of the Audi Makgetse food garden project, a five day training retreat was arranged at Tlholego eco village in the North West. The training was facilitated by Permaculture guru Ms Susie Spies, Nikki Robins from Tlholego and Mikal Lambert from Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA).
This resulted in the learners being very inspired to seriously consider a career in commercial urban agriculture, so much so that the group of six boys have started their own project. They are calling themselves “The Mystery Farmers”. They have since been able to access a piece of land in the nearby community and have begun preparing the soil for the development of their first independent food gardening project.
Says one of the boys, Alan Ledwaba, “We had a great time, and have learned a lot by acquiring skills from the great farmers and experts of agriculture. This was an encouragement for us to proceed with agriculture and be able to help our poverty stricken communities and to create eco environment in areas which are no longer used.”
FTFA thanks Audi SA for the support shown to the Makgetse school project and hopes to witness more of this life changing work in the near future.
Says one of the boys, Alan Ledwaba, “We had a great time, and have learned a lot by acquiring skills from the great farmers and experts of agriculture. This was an encouragement for us to proceed with agriculture and be able to help our poverty stricken communities and to create eco environment in areas which are no longer used.”
FTFA thanks Audi SA for the support shown to the Makgetse school project and hopes to witness more of this life changing work in the near future.
