Off the grid community garden initiative yields a rich harvest
The garden at Oliver’s Village – named after Charles Dickens’ famous orphan character Oliver Twist – has boosted this non-profit organisation’s capacity to spread hope in the Zenzele community in Daveyton.
Although one garden, it consists of three parts namely an educational section tended to by pre-schoolers, a productive garden run by a group of volunteers and a fruit forest, consisting of 200 trees. It produces tomatoes, peppers, cabbage and an array of other vegetables and fruit.
Oliver’s Village – a non-profit organisation – is situated on more than four hectares in Putfontein and the initiatives offered there include a soup kitchen, early childhood development centre, a learning centre where high school students get extra maths and physics lessons, a computer training centre and of course the food garden.
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