The Seaparankwe School in Attridgeville received an early Christmas gift during December. Wild Route Environmental Consultants delivered 75 indigenous trees to the school as part of their urban greening project sponsored by Thermo Char. The school applied for trees through Food & Trees for Africa, and Wild Route and Thermo Char agreed to help. Learners will be welcomed in 2011 with a transformed school yard filled with indigenous trees
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School In Atteridgeville Receives Early Christmas Gift
Konica Minolta South Africa Contributes 4 500 Trees To The Creation Of Urban Forests
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests to raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests. Bidvest company, Konica Minolta South Africa, has taken proactive steps towards creating urban forests and against global warming by contributing 4 500 trees to disadvantaged residents of settlements in Polokwane, Kimberley, East London, Port Elizabeth and Newcastle.
The National Lottery plants 45 000 Trees for Homes
Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA) was very excited to receive the news that they would be receiving R4 050 000 from the the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF), at the end of 2010. This will support the distribution of 45 000 Trees for Homes in 2011, The International Year of Forests, for 45 000 residents of low cost housing settlements across South Africa.
Nashua Mobile And The Waterloo `Green Team’ Plant 500 Trees For COP17 Host City
As South Africa gears up to host the 17th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP 17, in Durban at the end of November 2011, social enterprise Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA) is working harder than ever to green areas in and around Durban.
Comhousing is changing the face of rural KwaZulu Natal - Earth Day 2013
Comhousing and Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA) are working together to alleviate poverty and provide healthy food to those living in rural areas in KwaZulu Natal. The people in these areas will be hardest hit by climate change as rural households tend to rely heavily on climate sensitive resources such as local water supplies, locally produced food and other natural resources.
One educator can make the difference
Thousands of educators are attending workshops
across the country, learning how to develop healthy and sustainable
school environments that are conducive to learning.
EduPlant School Competition Winners Announced
The 2012 EduPlant National Schools Competition has today announced the 21 winning food gardening and greening schools across five categories. For the first time since the inception of the competition entries have been of an exceptionally high calibre.“We believe that changing from an annual competition to a biennial one, coupled with more on site school cluster workshops, has helped schools to develop their gardens to the next level,” says Joanne Carty, EduPlant Programme Manager. “This augers well for food security and resilience to increasing prices and food shortages going forward.”
Wardia VGK Primer, Western Cape - Actively eating from the garden
Mr Fontein the educator at Wardia has a good understanding of gardening using stacking, mulching and companions, with a very good grasp on permculture design. There is evidence of zoning and through understanding through the whole system using common sense planning and application.They have made careful attention to the improvement of the soil. Shortages of resources are well mitigated through rotation planting and soil enriching with broad beans in the wet season.
Vergesig Primary School, Western Cape - Running on an honour system
Miss Inke Scholtz joined Vergisig in November 2011 and quickly got to work at brining the defunct school food garden into production as a teaching oasis and established a Garden Club. The Garden club has a growing understanding of Permaculture design and gardening techniques that include mulching, chop & drop, companion and stacking in time and place. The Garden club has 40 members who give of their after school hours 3 times a week.
EDUPLANT - A SOLUTION FOR FIXING THE BROKEN FOOD SYSTEM
Whilst many of us may have made New Year resolutions about eating less or improving our diets and health, for many young people in South Africa food has very different connotations. In 2013, the effective EduPlant programme enters its 20th year at a time when the need to address food security and find solutions to the pressing issues of our food systems are more crucial than ever before.
Mokone Primary School, Western Cape - Optimism yields results
Khangela, the project leader at Mokone, has applied everything she could from the cluster workshops. There is a productive wormfarm, windbreaks (more planned…trees needed), evidence of companion planting, insect attractants and repellants, rain catching system (just a drum..but, recognition of the value of rainwater for the plants), nutritious teas being made and used, seeds being saved (and given or sold to other gardens), propagation beds, main crop beds, beds that are prepared and ready for spring planting and areas where Lupins were regenerating the soil, an indigenous area, a quadrangle in the centre of the school where children respect the plants and assist in the care of them. There is only a rudimentary understanding of zoning. Wind direction and sun angles had been identified.
