Tag: permaculture

Since its establishment in 1994, EduPlant has done remarkable work with its school gardening and nutrition programme. Perm culturist Bharathi Tugh tells us, “We are not only coming with information. ...

Gather to grow: Experienced permaculture practitioners shared their knowledge about farming with Mother Nature in a recent interactive session on Twitter Spaces. Listen to the recording here.

Microbiologist and KwaZulu-Natal farmer Morgan Brand used the scale of permanence as a guide to set up his farm. He joins us on this week’s podcast to unpack the factors ...

When Leigh Brown, 48, started the SEED organisation twenty years ago, she envisioned an organisation that could connect children to food.   “We found this really big need of bringing, at that ...

Recent progress made in the development of the agriculture and agro-processing master plan has been welcomed by Thoko Didiza, the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development. In this episode of the Farmer’s Inside Track podcast, Dr Sifiso Ntombela, ...

Mzansi’s financial year is off to a rocky start with an expected inflation hike. While the inflation outlook remains at 3.5%, FNB-Agribusiness says things could most likely change.   The 2020 ...

“Permaculture principles are thinking tools that  enable the farmer to creatively design a food production system that is robust, resilient, self-sustaining and ecologically sustainable,” says Delwyn Pillay, full-time volunteer and activist for Greenpeace Africa, and an ...

Current discourses around transformation and decolonisation have led to the realisation of the importance of indigenous knowledge systems, from folk music to the decolonisation of school curricula. In this exclusive ...