Urban Farming
Local Food Reliance Workshop with Robina McCurdy
How to grow your own (and cut down on trips to the supermarket). This weekend (10-11 July 2010), Robina McCurdy will be hosting a workshop on ‘Local Food Reliance’.
Sunny Side Up! A visit to Spier’s Biodynamic Farm
Remember that old Farmer Brown ad: ‘They taste so good, ’cause they eat so good’? It turns out that a diet of grubs, grass, grain, fresh air and sunshine makes the tastiest chickens of all. On 6 March 2010 a group of Slow Fooders visited Spier to learn more about their biodynamic farming methods.
Building a vertical food garden at Constantia Village
One thing one generally doesn’t expect to spot when entering a shopping mall is a vegetable patch, full of green, leafy edible plants – let alone a “Living Wall” of them. But that’s exactly what you will see at Constantia Village this week… and you can plant your own seedling to boot!
Spring has sprung! Time to sign up for another season of farm-fresh CSA fare…
I love being part of the Cape Town CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) project. One of the joys of eating seasonally is the anticipation of the new crops that each season brings, and being part of a CSA you’re right in the thick of it – what was growing, that morning, is now in your hands. And there’s a new one all set up for spring!
Oases of green: a tour of Soil For Life’s community food gardens
One misty morning, about a month ago, I joined a specially organised tour of Soil For Life’s “Little patches of salvation” – home food gardens and the bigger ‘Food Garden Enterprises’ that this hard-working Cape Town NGO has coached into being.
