The Greater Tygerberg Partnership’s urban food garden in Bellville was designed to provide employment opportunities, supply soup kitchens and provide people with access to sustainable food sources. (Photo: Abigail Baard)
By Abigail Baard – 17 December 2024
Urban food gardens not only supply food to the communities in which they are situated, they also help tackle unemployment by creating job opportunities. The Life Changing Garden in Bellville reveals the impact urban food gardens can have on a community.
The Life Changing Garden is an urban food garden located in the heart of Bellville. It was designed to provide job and rehabilitation opportunities, to feed soup kitchens and to provide access to sustainable food sources, Warren Hewitt told Daily Maverick. Hewitt is the Chief Executive Officer at The Greater Tygerberg Partnership, a non-for-profit company that implements programmes that are focused on the urban regeneration of Bellville and social development of the area. The urban food garden is a result of one of the Greater Tygerberg Partnership’s programmes…