EC

Eastern Cape

Hydroponics

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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

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

🌍🍊 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

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

Food Kitchens

+12

Mar 30, 2026

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10 min read

🌽🍅 A Fresh Harvest of Hope

Last Friday’s PV Agri meeting, hosted by Bishop Paul Verryn, was more than a check-in — it was a powerful reminder of what happens when hearts aligned with purpose come together. New voices joined old friends, each bringing land, expertise, and a deep longing to see communities fed, empowered, and transformed.If you’ve ever wondered whether our scattered efforts could become something far greater together... this edition will stir your spirit.Dive in and be encouraged.

Manana Matima, +11

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

Food Kitchens

+10

🌻 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

Community

🐞 Cultivating Resilience and Hope: Our 1st Agriculture Meeting 2026

Jan 5, 2026

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6 min read

🐞 Cultivating Resilience and Hope: Our 1st Agriculture Meeting 2026

From drought-stricken rural landscapes to overlooked urban spaces in Johannesburg, team members shared honest updates on challenges like water scarcity and flood recovery, alongside promising initiatives to grow food in abandoned buildings—providing nutrition, skills, and dignity to vulnerable communities, including blind residents facing daily hardship. These efforts are not abstract; they address real human needs, fostering self-reliance and hope where it is needed most.

Emma Archer, +5

Video Tuts

+10

🌞 ⛈️ Forecasting Rain: How Science Guides Our Food Security Efforts

Oct 13, 2025

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8 min read

🌞 ⛈️ Forecasting Rain: How Science Guides Our Food Security Efforts

Dr. Willem Landman shared fresh seasonal forecasts predicting a weak La Niña phase, bringing potential wetter conditions to South Africa's summer rainfall regions like Gauteng and beyond. By blending expert science with grassroots passion, we're building resilience against climate challenges—join us in cultivating sustainable futures for vulnerable families.

Manana Matima, +6

Food Kitchens

🍄🌳 Progress in Mushrooms, Tree Planting, and Community Partnerships

Sep 29, 2025

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9 min read

🍄🌳 Progress in Mushrooms, Tree Planting, and Community Partnerships

Discover how South Africans are transforming food security with innovative farming solutions and community collaboration. Read and sign up join the movement!

Manana Matima, +9

Community

Sep 8, 2025

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6 min read

🚜 🌱Mini Tractors and Moringa Magic!

Ready to harvest ideas? Workshops in Gqeberha, new Moringa seed plantings, and an upcoming IFC funding event in Johannesburg on partnerships. Discover how we're building sustainable futures together!

Manana Matima, +7

Food Kitchens

Aug 25, 2025

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9 min read

🐟 22nd August:Fish, Land & Data

Welcome, as we dive into the heart of sustainable farming, community empowerment, and agricultural innovation hosted by the ever-inspiring Bishop Paul Verryn.

Paul Verryn, +4

Video Tuts

Aug 11, 2025

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9 min read

🥦 8th August - Land, power & paperwork.

Issue 6. The meeting on August 8, the PV Agri Report kicked off with a lively discussion, as meeting members gathered.

Paul Verryn, +5

Food Kitchens

Jul 21, 2025

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12 min read

🍅 18th July 2025 Issue #3

Agricultural Projects and Community Development, Land and Investment Challenges, Market and Economic Opportunities & Agricultural Research and Site Assessments.

Manana Matima, +6

EC

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

🚜🪴 Friends, Partners, and Cultivators of Change

🌍🍊 Limpopo Breakthrough & Ghana Delegation joins the Discussion

⛈️❄️ Hope in the Rain: Meeting Highlights

🧪💡 Gardens Thriving & Bold New Funding Ideas

🌽🍅 A Fresh Harvest of Hope

🌱🐟💰 Tunnels, Growing & Funding

🌻 Inspiring Community Gardens: Lessons from Plettenberg Bay

🐞 Cultivating Resilience and Hope: Our 1st Agriculture Meeting 2026

🌞 ⛈️ Forecasting Rain: How Science Guides Our Food Security Efforts

🍄🌳 Progress in Mushrooms, Tree Planting, and Community Partnerships

🚜 🌱Mini Tractors and Moringa Magic!

🐟 22nd August:Fish, Land & Data

🥦 8th August - Land, power & paperwork.

🍅 18th July 2025 Issue #3

The PV Agri Report