About This Project

PRE-FOOD GARDEN PROJECT

Over the last few years the local community has been involved in cleaning a dump and planting up the site with indigenous plants. This was a community led initiative. It addresses the issues around unused land, illegal dumping, littering, biodiversity loss and lack of care for the environment and the community as a whole. The nature garden provides a positive space for the
community to engage with. So far they have planted over 30 plant species and are hoping to maintain a bio- diverse garden impacting the ecology of the area positively in the long run.

PROGRESS IN SALT RIVER.

Progress led in January/February 2020 on the transformation of two old car parking bays, next to the community nature garden. Forty years of rubbish were cleared with the local community, to transform two identical areas into a children’s football pitch, play area(with apparatus), and community food garden, with a multi-functioning educational space.
We worked with partners such as Unicef, Tuba-Films, Flowers for Africa, Rainbow Warriors, and Baz-Arts to create community engagement, a design process, implementation and build, and completion to an industry standard, with the community as the paid employees. We made local history with this work. With the advent of Covid-19 the garden not only serves as a place of
solace, but also a place of continual food production for the more needy of the locality, especially those that struggle to find enough to feed themselves and their family. Hope, empowerment and sense of dignity has been created from a ground up approach to the redevelopment of this unused land.