EduPlant, South African school’s premier food gardening and greening competition, recently announced the winning schools across five categories, with Roseway Waldorf being recognised for its work.
Photo: Pula Madibogo Primary School (Limpopo) with EduPlant partners
The EduPlant programme teaches schools to implement permaculture principles to grow gardens that are used to achieve food security for schools and their communities. These gardens grow to become the foundation of society that brings marginalised groups together with the most practical intervention – nutrition.
“These school gardens are where the magic takes place,” says Sue Spies, facilitator at EduPlant. “They reach out to community resources to provide a way of living by growing good quality food.”
The permaculture food gardening programme was developed to motivate schools and their communities to grow food naturally and care for their environments sustainably. This year’s awards have seen schools that have excelled at designing projects to improve their environment through sustainable resource use and management, and use their projects for active learning.
The competition recognizes the efforts of participating schools at the different levels. The Emerging Category, which was won by KwaZulu-Natal’s Roseway Waldorf School, is for schools that have implemented a permaculture food gardening project at their school and are first time entrants in the EduPlant competition.
For more information please contact Food & Trees for Africa on 011 656 9802 or email info@trees.org.za.