Vredehoek Community Garden

Great integrity in these people proud of what they do.

This is a brilliant initiative. There are many fresh vegetables for sale including Spinach, Lettuce and Cale as well as a wide assortment of pot plants and seedlings. Staff are very helpful and friendly and they welcome visitors and clients.The garden looks like it could do with a sponsorship of a more aggressive commercial strategy and business plan to make it even more sustainable and also to motivate for the model to be replicated in urban areas where unemployment and poverty is high.This type of initiative helps reduce crime and gives despondent communities a purpose.A community garden is a piece of land gardened collectively by a group of people.They serve as a way to build a sense of local community, a connection to the environment and to provide fresh produce and plants. They range from small plots of vegetables, to large ‘greening’ projects to preserve natural areas.Not all of them have an open gate policy. Some grow only ornamental plants, others function as market gardens.In Cape Town Community gardens have been a rising trend for a while now. Whether they’re tiny backyard plots, a portion of a city park, rooftop gardens, vertical gardens or ornamental gardening along a river bank, urban community gardening is on the rise.