Inzalo Community Gardens

We are very proud to share with you our latest collaborative film with @Black Bean Productions featuring an income generating garden run by nine industrious women in South Africa.
The short video covers the work of the Thousand Herbs and Vegetable Garden, a small business started by The Inzalo Community Project. Inzalo is a South African nonprofit that runs community development projects in the communities outside of both the Thornybush and Sabi Sands Reserves in South Africa. The foundation, along with The Thornybush Collection, has championed two amazing women’s cooperative gardens. The Thousand Herbs and Vegetable Garden is a productive community garden run by a group of nine volunteer mothers who sell produce to 10 neighboring eco-tourism lodges in the Sabi Sands and Thornybush Reserves. The garden also supplies food to approximately 700 students who attend the adjacent local school high school (Manyangana High School).
The nine women who run the garden receive the weekly proceeds from sales of produce providing them with important financial support. In addition, each volunteer mother receives a weekly produce package for her family. The second garden is located at the Hananani Primary School. This garden supplies daily produce for approximately 150 students at the school. The two women who run the garden receive a monthly salary and a weekly produce package for their families.
The program, in its twelfth year of business, allows the community to thrive by relying less on outside support and more on its independent source of sustenance and income. Currently, the garden is working on building a nursery for seedling production, installing water-harvesting earthworks, organizing waste-management, and developing a micro-organism composting program among many other endeavors. This year, Empowers Africa’s grant will go towards building a new fence around the garden. The main goal of this garden project is to become completely sustainable and achieve its own development goals, independent of continuous outside facilitation.
To learn more about The Inzalo Community Project and their programs, please visit www.thornybushcommunityproject....
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Video Credit: Black Bean Productions