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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

Food Kitchens

🧪💡 Gardens Thriving & Bold New Funding Ideas

Apr 27, 2026

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1 min read

🧪💡 Gardens Thriving & Bold New Funding Ideas

Dear PV Agri family and friends,Another encouraging Friday meeting with Bishop Paul Verryn and the team! Here are the highlights from 24 April 2026:

Paul Verryn, +4

Hydroponics

Mar 23, 2026

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7 min read

🌱🐟💰 Tunnels, Growing & Funding

Good morning, family, another productive Friday gathering with Bishop leading the charge, with members joining from across the country. Here’s what’s moving forward in our growing network. The atmosphere was warm and full of momentum as we celebrated tangible progress and fresh opportunities in our shared mission through agriculture.

Emma Archer, +9

Hydroponics

🧑🏽‍🌾 📊 Balemi Agricultural Survey 2026: Key Findings from 600+ Vaal Farmers Revealed

Mar 9, 2026

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6 min read

🧑🏽‍🌾 📊 Balemi Agricultural Survey 2026: Key Findings from 600+ Vaal Farmers Revealed

Last Friday’s PV Agri meeting delivered one of the most important moments yet for urban agriculture in South Africa. The official results of the Balemi Agricultural Survey — a major new study involving 606 small-scale farmers in the Vaal townships — were presented in full by David Dickinson and Mannana Matima (WiARM).This groundbreaking report exposes the harsh realities facing township farmers (especially women): land hunger in the middle of unused open spaces, water scarcity, widespread theft, poor government support and urgent training needs. But it also lights a clear path forward.

Manana Matima, +11

Food Kitchens

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🌻 Inspiring Community Gardens: Lessons from Plettenberg Bay

Jan 12, 2026

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9 min read

🌻 Inspiring Community Gardens: Lessons from Plettenberg Bay

Highlighting the power of grassroots innovation, the meeting featured an inspiring presentation from Mary-Anne Mngomezulu of the Native Root Shelter, demonstrating how simple, sustainable practices can transform communities and empower the vulnerable.

Emma Archer, +5

Food Kitchens

🧑🏽‍🌾🌱Hope, Land, Seeds, and Real Community Progress

Nov 24, 2025

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8 min read

🧑🏽‍🌾🌱Hope, Land, Seeds, and Real Community Progress

Dear Friends, Partners, and Fellow Food-Growers, Our meeting was filled with the kind of quiet determination that actually changes lives. Once again we saw that when committed people share knowledge, encourage one another, and refuse to accept “impossible” as an answer, real breakthroughs happen – especially for women, youth, and disadvantaged farmers who are feeding their communities against the odds.

Manana Matima, +5

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🌵 🦽 Therapeutic Gardens and Indigenous Plants

Oct 20, 2025

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9 min read

🌵 🦽 Therapeutic Gardens and Indigenous Plants

Waste recycling, practical composting, balancing greens and browns, Green Anglican initiative promoting tree planting and therapeutic church gardens. Discussions emphasized indigenous plants for cultural cleansing, together with project reports

Manana Matima, +10

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

🧪💡 Gardens Thriving & Bold New Funding Ideas

🌱🐟💰 Tunnels, Growing & Funding

🧑🏽‍🌾 📊 Balemi Agricultural Survey 2026: Key Findings from 600+ Vaal Farmers Revealed

🌻 Inspiring Community Gardens: Lessons from Plettenberg Bay

🧑🏽‍🌾🌱Hope, Land, Seeds, and Real Community Progress

🌵 🦽 Therapeutic Gardens and Indigenous Plants

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