Permaculture Projects
Permaculture Explorers Team up to Build Tower Garden
This week’s Permaculture class included the first lesson on Climate Change–what is it and what does it look like in South Africa? The women all understood the concepts from their felt experiences of already living with hotter temperatures, more days of very hot weather, unpredictable rainfall, and extreme weather events. Every Climate Change lesson has…
Permaculture Explorers are Back in Business!
Our business class took off again after the Easter holidays. The women all shared their drawings of their ideal Woman Ecopreneur after talking with their families and getting additional input. We started our Reward system where the women can earn points that can be redeemed for items for their gardens. Coming to class, doing homework,…
Spekboom trees for all!
Thanks to our partner, Hlokomela, all of our 22 Permaculture Explorers now have spekboom trees growing in their gardens. Spekboom is an indigenous tree that is called “The Wonder Plant”. 1) It has enormous carbon-storing capabilities! Carbon dioxide is captured and prevented from entering the atmosphere by the Spekboom – in other words less pollution.…
Check out our first Permaculture class!
Permaculture Explorers: Above the Line held its first Permaculture class yesterday. We started with what is Permaculture and then introduced some of the principles of Permaculture. We are using a teach back model of training, so the women were already up in front of the group teaching back what they had just learned. This builds…
Permaculture Explorers: Above the Line-Addressing Extreme Poverty
Our new project Permaculture Explorers: Above the Line launches today in the government housing project (the RDP) in Acornhoek. We will work with 20 women-headed households, teaching the women a combination of Permaculture gardening–so they can grow their own fresh, healthy food–and small business enterprise development–so they can learn how to run a small enterprise and…
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