Hold that plate! Ladles of Love is encouraging you to collect instead of chuck your kitchen waste and turn it into nutritious compost for urban farmers.
Cape Town, South Africa (11 September 2024) – You know that horrible guilty feeling you often get inside when you throw out a half-eaten plate of food or spoilt veggies and leftovers from the fridge?
Well, you can now put that “old food” to a very good use that is not only great for the environment but also helps many urban farmers enrich their soil.
Through the Ladles of Love’s Feed The Soil programme you can play a part in a sustainable ecosystem and avoid wasting food.
The Feed The Soil programme is an initiative aimed at saving household food waste from landfills while helping farmers grow and sell better produce.
“Feed The Soil aims to create healthy compost from your kitchen food waste. Using the Feed The Soil Food Waste Kit, you actively form part of our community farming ecosystem – from paying forward your food waste to turning it into nutritious compost and buying back the fresh produce grown from it,” Ladles of Love shares.
How the programme works:
To participate, simply sign up for the programme, and purchase your Feed the Soil Food Waste Kit from Ladles of Love’s online store. Once you have your kit, you collect your food scraps and off-cuts at home using the kit.
Once full, swap your bucket at one of the Ladles of Love weekly meeting points for a clean one (R25 swap fee). And what’s even more amazing is that you can purchase and stock up on fresh, organic veggies from local farmers while you’re there.
To learn more about the programme or to find out where your nearest Ladles of Love meeting point is visit the website here or email info@ladlesoflove.org.za
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