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I was really interested to read recently that over 15% of the world’s food is produced by micro-farmers – organic and biodynamic backyard gardens, community gardens or small farms. That’s higher than I thought. It makes me kind of proud to have one of those gardens in our backyard, even if we have to share a large percentage of it with the snails.
Most of us have heard of Abalimi Bezekhaya (Farmers of Home) co-founded by Rob Small, which has started nothing short of a micro-farming revolution in the townships of Cape Town, investing in organic micro-farming in order to end poverty – no fewer than 100 community gardens and 3 000 micro-farmers in Cape Town alone.
These same farmers supply half their produce to the well-known organic box delivery scheme, Harvest of Hope with packing sheds in
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