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🧑🏽‍🌾 🪏 Building Resilience: Innovation, Land Legacy & Quiet Determination

Jun 29, 2026

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5 min read

🧑🏽‍🌾 🪏 Building Resilience: Innovation, Land Legacy & Quiet Determination

Real resilience is built through collaboration — whether it’s starting a new plant culture system, offering firebreak help to a restituted farm, teaching children to garden, or simply showing up with an open heart and practical support.

Paul Verryn, +7

🪴🪨 Youth Empowerment, Women Farmers and a Regulatory Win for Community Microgreens

Jun 22, 2026

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2 min read

🪴🪨 Youth Empowerment, Women Farmers and a Regulatory Win for Community Microgreens

Bishop Paul Verryn's Agri network explored how the energy of past struggles can be channelled into today’s constructive work. A striking message from a 1976 Soweto student leader — that the time has come for “gathering stones” rather than throwing them — youth development, expanding women’s agricultural projects, and exciting progress with hydroponics and hemp microgreens.

Paul Verryn, +8

Hydroponics

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⏰🌿 Seeds of Solidarity: Bishop Paul Verryn Hosts a Courageous Conversation on Dignity, Migration and Our Food Future

Jun 16, 2026

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⏰🌿 Seeds of Solidarity: Bishop Paul Verryn Hosts a Courageous Conversation on Dignity, Migration and Our Food Future

Bishop Paul Verryn once again created a warm and courageous space for the PV Agri family to gather. In a meeting that moved honestly between the painful realities of xenophobia in Durban and the quiet hope of community gardens and aquaponics systems, we were reminded that food security and human dignity are deeply connected. Voices from Limpopo, Durban, Cape Town, and across the continent joined Bishop Paul in exploring how we can stand together for both the soil and the soul of our communities.

Paul Verryn, +8

Hydroponics

🚜🪴 Friends, Partners, and Cultivators of Change

Jun 8, 2026

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4 min read

🚜🪴 Friends, Partners, and Cultivators of Change

This 40th newsletter of our PV Agri Network was a beautiful tapestry of lived experience, technical progress, honest challenges, and forward-looking ideas. Whether you were present or reading this summary later, we hope it conveys the spirit of possibility that filled the virtual room.

Paul Verryn, +8

Hydroponics

Jun 1, 2026

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3 min read

🚸🥬 Living Harvests & Shared Wisdom

We celebrated real progress on the ground: Bonginkosi’s community cabbage harvest, Manana’s thriving one-month Sedibeng project now linked to a local orphanage, and Nelisa’s joyful first cassava harvest alongside plans for a new demonstration garden in KZN. Rich conversation flowed around practical growing tips and the thoughtful steps needed to bring agriculture into schools.

Paul Verryn, +7

May 25, 2026

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2 min read

💰💔 R2.4m to Zero

Harsh realities facing South African farmers and practical pathways toward greater resilience and local food security. Participants shared on-the-ground experiences, environmental updates, and strategic insights amid rising input costs and market pressures.

Paul Verryn, +8

Hydroponics

🌍🍊 Limpopo Breakthrough & Ghana Delegation joins the Discussion

May 18, 2026

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2 min read

🌍🍊 Limpopo Breakthrough & Ghana Delegation joins the Discussion

In one powerful hour we celebrated a major breakthrough in Limpopo, rejoiced in the latest harvest at Reverend Walter Gcabashe Methodist Development Centre in Pietermaritzburg, witnessed the resilience of the Crossroads tunnels, in light of the recent storms in the Western Cape and warmly welcomed a strong delegation from Ghana.

Paul Verryn, +9

Food Kitchens

⛈️❄️ Hope in the Rain: Meeting Highlights

May 11, 2026

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2 min read

⛈️❄️ Hope in the Rain: Meeting Highlights

Amid reports of heavy flooding and freezing temperatures caused by a cut-off low weather system, the team also celebrated real progress on the ground — from disaster relief efforts in Makhanda to a major agricultural breakthrough in Sebokeng. With skills-development programmes advancing and large-scale project plans now fully ready for launch, the meeting once again reminded us that even in challenging times, hope, collaboration, and faithful action continue to bear fruit.

Manana Matima, +11

Hydroponics

🚨 ⛏️ Foot & Mouth Disease, El Niño Risks & Mining Land Restoration

May 4, 2026

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2 min read

🚨 ⛏️ Foot & Mouth Disease, El Niño Risks & Mining Land Restoration

Bishop Paul Verryn welcomed a strong group despite a long list of apologies (Mbata, Anthony, Bonginkosi, Nancy, Bukelewa, Faith, Alfred Modise, Delahart, Manana, Nomvui and others). The conversation was warm, practical and forward-looking, covering weather, livestock disease, economic pressures on farmers, mining-land rehabilitation, and exciting on-the-ground projects.

Emma Archer, +7

Food Kitchens