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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

🌍🍊 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

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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

🌞🌧️❄️ Navigating El Niño, Building Regenerative Food Systems & Tackling Mining Transitions

Mar 16, 2026

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8 min read

🌞🌧️❄️ Navigating El Niño, Building Regenerative Food Systems & Tackling Mining Transitions

Hosted by Bishop Paul Verryn, the discussion focused on climate resilience, innovative post-mining land use, practical skills-to-enterprise pathways and urgent community challenges. As always, the emphasis was on turning talk into tangible action through shared resources and partnerships.

Manana Matima, +11

AgriSeta

🐄☠️ Foot-and-Mouth Disease Crisis Escalates in Free State

Jan 26, 2026

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5 min read

🐄☠️ Foot-and-Mouth Disease Crisis Escalates in Free State

In this week's Agriculture Meeting hosted by Bishop Paul Verryn, the group received a sobering update on the rapidly spreading Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak. The discussion highlighted the severe economic and emotional toll on farmers, alongside progress reports on food security projects and community initiatives.

Manana Matima, +6

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

Food Kitchens

📗 🫘 Seeds of Change Are Being Planted – Quietly, Persistently, Powerfully

Dec 1, 2025

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10 min read

📗 🫘 Seeds of Change Are Being Planted – Quietly, Persistently, Powerfully

Dear Partners, Friday morning’s rain across Gauteng and beyond felt like a blessing on every garden, every bag, every patch of earth we are fighting for. This weeks meeting was shorter than usual (the Bishop had to rush to a teenage-pregnancy prevention event in Birchwoods), but the meeting carried the same fire we have come to recognise as the heartbeat of this movement. Here’s what moved forward today:

Manana Matima, +8

Food Kitchens

⚖️ 🗽 Advancing Agricultural Resilience: International Ties and Local Struggles

Nov 10, 2025

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9 min read

⚖️ 🗽 Advancing Agricultural Resilience: International Ties and Local Struggles

Advocacy for flexible global partnerships in agriculture, legal interventions to protect vulnerable gardeners from unfair demands, progress in crop yields boosted by rainfall despite infrastructure issues, and the development of educational agendas to align skills with modern needs, all aimed at creating lasting positive impacts for South African families and youth.

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

Market News

Research to Reality: Uniting for Sustainable Farming

Sep 22, 2025

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8 min read

Research to Reality: Uniting for Sustainable Farming

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

Emma Archer, +5

Hydroponics

🌱 4th July 2025 Report + Mid-Winter Planting and Planning

Jul 7, 2025

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18 min read

🌱 4th July 2025 Report + Mid-Winter Planting and Planning

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Manana Matima, +9

FState

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

🌍🍊 Limpopo Breakthrough & Ghana Delegation joins the Discussion

⛈️❄️ Hope in the Rain: Meeting Highlights

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

🌽🍅 A Fresh Harvest of Hope

🌞🌧️❄️ Navigating El Niño, Building Regenerative Food Systems & Tackling Mining Transitions

🐄☠️ Foot-and-Mouth Disease Crisis Escalates in Free State

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

📗 🫘 Seeds of Change Are Being Planted – Quietly, Persistently, Powerfully

⚖️ 🗽 Advancing Agricultural Resilience: International Ties and Local Struggles

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

Research to Reality: Uniting for Sustainable Farming

🌱 4th July 2025 Report + Mid-Winter Planting and Planning

The PV Agri Report