It’s easy peasy to get in touch with yourself, your family and your community by harvesting the abundance of nature.
Easy Peasy is a Cape Flats Youth Enterprise started in June 2016 with the purpose of achieving food security through building local resilience and developed from SEED an incubation space for green enterprises.
SEED, an NGO based in Mitchell’s Plain has been involved in contributing to city wide resilience for over 15 years through inspiring and upskilling unemployed township youth using permaculture.
“SEED is an award-winning public benefit organisation that contributes to Cape Town’s resilience through awakening the potential of our unemployed township youth; connecting them to their strengths, the positive resilience action they can take in their lives and also to green jobs.”
This initiative enables local community growers to cultivate a variety of organic heirloom seasonal seedlings year round including Veg Out, Hipster Juice and My Salad Days trays.
Based at Rocklands Urban Abundance in Mitchells Plain, their work places youth at the centre of environmental sustainability. The team believe that by connecting youth to the environment and equipping them with the know-how to harness the opportunities in the Green Economy, we grow our communities, cities and country resilience.
Since 2000, SEED has pioneered the growing of Outdoor Classroom in under resourced schools in South Africa, growing ecological literacy in schools, as well as organic food for school goers and the communities in which they are situated. As they’ve become more connected with communities, they have developed their service offerings responsively.
In 2012, SEED launched the first iteration of Seeding Futures and have since graduated 5 intakes of youth and streamlined the learning program. They are now proud of 98 Alumni, with 10 Alumni active in the current intake of the program (facilitators, administrators, speakers, caterers and enterprise leads) who have collectively launched 4 eco-enterprises and educated a further 1230 people in personal resilience practice.
“We take pride in working with urban township youth who have typically been excluded from accessing further education or employment due to low-levels of education.”
Easy Peasy makes it simple for people of all ages to save time and resources by growing their own healthy food; nourishing everyone and building a resilient economy and community. Easy Peasy makes its’ trays of vegetable seedlings available via partner individuals and organizations.
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