Our vegetable gardens are an integral part of our food programs and provide vital fresh vegetables to our beneficiaries.
We have recently expanded our gardens and have been able to increase the varieties of vegetables that we grow. We have regular harvests of spinach, cabbage, peppers, brinjals, tomatoes, squash, kale, beans, beetroot, carrots, onions, lettuce, spring onions and broccoli. We have also set aside an area where we grow our own seedlings which is progressing well.
We are extremely grateful to Anne-Marie Ferreira of Tokara and Wendy Attwell who are staunch supporters of Love to Give’s vegetable gardens and have helped us for the past fifteen years. During the school holidays, their team created new garden beds at Kayamandi primary for us. The learners at Kayamandi Primary and some of our yeboneers are now tending their own garden sections in the new beds. The photographs below show the progression of the new garden and our beneficiaries working in the new beds.