Last night I spent the evening at the Green Drinks event held in Newlands. The green drinks events are to organised to bring together environmentally minded people and other interested parties to meet, learn and share ideas for sustainability and conscious living. February’s theme is Earth:Food and thus brought together people from Slow Food Mother City, Wild Organics and Kwalapa. However I was really impressed by the Food Tent initiative by Heart Global
The initiative is pretty simple and straight forward, setting up what effectively becomes very much like a mini green house but using 50% shade netting. It stands 2m high, 4m wide and 9m long and can be erected within 45minutes. The tents are then filled with veggies that with in 6 weeks, Heart Global claim, will feed approximate fifty people per month. By placing them at schools, aid organisations and the like they assist communities and children.
Not only are the Food Tents producing food and an income (via sales of the produce), but when used in schools they become a great educational tool for teaching children.
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