It’s official. We’ve finally managed to do it. Hold the phones. Stop the press. Turn off the stove, but leave the oven on. We’re making a commitment to support Soil for Life in 2010.
Who are they? Soil for Life is a wonderful little NGO based and operating out of Constantia, Cape Town, that teaches people to grow their own food. Their motto is: healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy people.
Judging by the work they are doing, their impressive track record and the basic needs in this country, we couldn’t think of a more suitable group of individuals to support this coming year. Who knows, perhaps after the soccer is over next year we could grow some world class vegetables on those pitches!
Charles at Soil for Life
So in brief, they start by teaching people how to grow their own food. This then leads to an array of different life skills ranging from composting, worm-farming, making preserves and selling their produce to friends or local markets… the list of benefits goes on. All the while they provide continuous support via experienced field workers. And what’s best of all is that it’s practically free for anyone who needs it to get involved.
The main focus of their work is helping poor people to start small home gardens so they can feed themselves. The impact these people often make on their communities is impressive – analogous to the growth of a seed into a large, shade-giving evergreen. Take some time to look at their website, read some of the testimonies and discover just how it easy it is to help make a difference.
Des's beautiful garden in front of her home
So from our side, we’ve committed to helping them in a number of small but exciting ways in 2010 and are offering our customers the opportunity to jump on the bandwagon and help as well.
So if you are intrigued, interested or impressed then watch this space for more information over the coming weeks.
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This is great! Let us know if you need some link love for this type of initiative Skattie…
Glad you like it! You’re more than welcome to link to this page, or future pages regarding Soil for Life. More information, stories and results of the work they do will be online soon.
Nice work, Iam intrigued, interested and impressed. I all about socially and environmentally responsible companies… Now I want to know what it is that you are doing with these guys. Looking forward to the updates.
@ jd the fishman: Thanks for the compliment. We’ll be posting more information onf what we’re doing inthe next week or so. It seems now you’re also informed
it’s a fab thing you are doing with soil for life. they are a great organisation and won our eat in smalll producers merit award last year Pat F, girls @ soulfood and team yuppiechef yay yay!.