Growing Upwards just finished planting up their sixth community garden; the garden has been established to help supply food to a local soup kitchen.
Knysna, South Africa (10 March 2021) – Growing Upwards was created by a group of Knysna women who were moved to action through empathy for those who are struggling to eat nutritious meals on a daily basis. They worked to identify suitable leaders in the community who could be assisted and trained to establish and sustain a garden as a food source.
Working with donations from the local community, they hoped to establish these gardens in areas that had seen a decline in nutritional meals come breakfast and dinner time.
Since launching the project late last year, the organisation has played a role in providing five community gardens in Knysna and the surrounds. They have worked on partnerships with businesses as well as the public to reach such a great milestone.
The organisation has now started work on the sixth garden in Knysna. The large garden was installed at The Village / Shepards Tree for the Knysna Methodist Outreach. The food garden will be used by the outreach to produce vegetables to feed people at their various soup kitchen projects.
Now that there are six gardens installed by Growing Upwards, they plan to go back and provide training to the people and empowering them to grow different foods according to the seasons. As the season is about to change, these skills will be incredibly valuable.
This is the biggest part of the food security project. It is vital that people who have access to these gardens know how to manage and care for them through each season.
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