urban garden
Food security is the focus
Because youth are the future, they need to be part of the solution when it comes to climate change, food sovereignty and sustainable ways of living, believe the founders of Ekasi Project Green.
Chapel Street School food garden serves many purposes
The large food garden at Chapel Street Primary School in Cape Town produces 10kg of fresh produce daily, which supplements the school feeding scheme. The garden is also used in the biology curriculum, to offer gardening as an extramural, and as a way to teach the children about caring.
Bringing design to South Africa’s streets
The Your Street Challenge recently took place in Cape Town, with the aim of bringing about positive social change in the city's suburbs, through design and innovation.
• SA housing innovation on show in US
Boulders penguins’ promised land
Eaten by sailors, robbed of their island homes by guano hunters, starved by commercial fishing and decimated by oil spills, African penguins have found a new home on Cape Town’s Boulders beach – and are very much part of the human community.
• Cape Town's responsible tourism
