Guerrilla Garden: A food forest in Cape Town l Africa Direct Documentary

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Guerrilla Garden: A food forest in Cape Town l Africa Direct Documentary


Qaba Mbola and the Ujamaa Guerrilla Gardening Collective have turned a windswept disused public space into a food forest for the residents of Khayelitsha, an apartheid-era township outside Cape Town, South Africa.

This garden not only provides food but also an important sense of belonging. Residents plant, harvest, sell or exchange produce….

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  1. Many thanks for watching. Let us know what you think in the comments below.

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  2. This is awesome, thank you for sharing. Here are some native fruit trees that could also work well in a South African food forest. SourPlum (Ximenia caffra), White-berry bush (Flueggea virosa), Wild Apricot (Dovyalis zeyheri), and Natal plum (Carissa macrocarpa).

  3. At times I feel sad bc the need is big, I live in a town where people walk by. They all want spinache, marogo and chillies ec…but we use munisipality water, in other words we pay for the water.

  4. I love this story, it's an absolute inspiration. These are little things we can all do to improve our food situation and how we interact with the environment around us, even with all the limitations…it is possible. I love how they work together, and yet everyone has their little thing going on. That's what we need more than ever, less competition and more corporation. God bless their hearts and hands