Rhodes students and primary school learners joined together on Tuesday to sow a vegetable garden that aims to feed children under the Orphans and Vulnerable Children project (OVC).
Rhodes students and primary school learners joined together on Tuesday to sow a vegetable garden that aims to feed children under the Orphans and Vulnerable Children project (OVC).
The initiative, run by Rhodes’ GRASS (Gaian Revolutions And Social Solutions) project, sowed vegetables and herbs in a community garden in M.V. Cewu Primary School in Joza.
The garden is maintained by the Correctional Services Department, which sends paroled prisoners to work there every Saturday as their community service.
GRASS Chairman David Knowles said companion planting, sowing certain seeds next to each other, help to nurture the soil so it would help the seeds sprout at the same time. GRASS brought different kinds of vegetable seeds like onions, leeks, cabbage, pumpkin, broccoli, mealies, beans, sweet pepper, as well as herbs.
The GRASS Project helps communities in need of their services as they are also involved in river clean-ups, art workshops and community gardens. It also distributes food on a weekly basis to the orphans.
Etai Even-Zahva,a member of Grass, said they plan to go to schools every week and pick up the rubbish for recycling and then they would decorate the garden with it.
