ActionSA Promotes food security among local farmers
As part of their Let’s Work the Soil programme, ActionSA is focusing on educating residents and upcoming farmers about the importance of having their own vegetable gardens in the comfort of their own homes.
ActionSA Joburg Caucus Cllrs recently visited Orlando West to educate local farmers about the importance of food security.
As part of their Let’s Work the Soil programme, ActionSA is focusing on educating residents and upcoming farmers about the importance of having their own vegetable gardens in the comfort of their own homes.
According to ActionSA PR Cllr, Mpumi Edaward, they choose this programme as a way of making communities aware of the opportunities that are available within the farming space and to hopefully create employment especially among young people in the future.
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“When communities know how to make and take care of their own food, it becomes easier to bridge the gap between poverty and the issue of food insecurity.
“We also want to remove the mind-set that people usually have of associating farming with something that is done by uneducated people because that’s not true, nothing beats being able to grow your own food in the comfort of your own home,” Edward said.
She added that they will be providing mentorship programmes and materials that will help upcoming farmers start their gardens.
“If more people can get into farming, the world would be a better place because it would mean more families will be able to sleep with food on their table.
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“As ActionSA we urge more residents to take farming more seriously and start with their gardens. It’s better to start now than never.”
A local farmer, Ngcebo Nhlakanipho Zungu, from Orlando West was one of those who was visited by the programme and received seedlings to aid his farming passion.
