South Africa's Woolworths supermarket chain is sponsoring a project to establish school food gardens based on permaculture principles. The EduPlant initiative, a Woolworths Trust social investment project, is co-ordinated by NGO Food & Trees for Africa. In April EduPlant trained 5430 educators for the project at free workshops.
Trained educators teach the children to design and establish food gardens in the school grounds. That includes setting up recycling, water harvesting, companion planting, creating natural pest-repellents, composting, energy-saving and attracting birds and other useful creatures to their school environment activities, all in line with the principles of permaculture. No chemical fertilisers or pesticides are used on the vegetables and fruit grown.
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June 12, 2007
South Africa's Woolworths supermarkets assists schools permaculture programme
Categories conservation agriculture, South Africa, sustainable farming
