Kurland Greening
After a long wait, the day finally arrived – today, the 27th July 2017 marked the 7th annual Kurland Greening Event.
This event is one of the highlights on the Natures Valley Trust and Tsitsi-tuiniers gardening clubs calendar. Initiated way back in 2003 by NVT and WWISA, the greening event has grown from strength to strength.
2011 marked the first year that the event became an annual multi-stakeholder, community driven event under the official banner of the Kurland Greening. From this initiative arose the Tsitsi- tuiniers Gardening Club, which is a community driven organization. In 2016 the Kurland Greening Event was officially hosted under the banner of the Tsitsi-tuiniers gardening club for the first time – by the community, for the community!
This year we continued the success of previous years and………what a day we had! The Kurland community hall was packed with different excited stakeholders, ready to make Kurland green.
After a warm welcome from Dr. Mark Brown (Programme Director at NVT) and a word of encouragement from Douglas Baartman (Waste Management: Bitou Municipality), we set-off to green Kurland. Shovels, spades and wheelbarrows in hand the community and stakeholder teams made quick work of the task at hand. Not only did we plant 30 indigenous trees (now over 1200 planted since 2011), but important maintenance was done on previously planted trees.
We would like to thank everyone for their contribution towards the success of the day: Tsitsi-tuiniers gardening club, ORCA foundation, Bitou Municipality, SANParks, Milton Farm, Born in Africa, Willing Workers In Southern Africa (WWISA), Brackenburn C.R.E.W, Table Mountain Fund, Working on Fire, Bitou Fire Departement.
Kurland Greening Gallery