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Urban Harvest - Social and Environmental Resilience through Community and Family Food Gardens
Summary
Urban Harvest works with communities to design, install and co-manage ecological, beautiful and highly productive urban food gardens.
Working at the individual, family and community scales, our projects provide jobs, skills, purpose and fresh organic food to the most vulnerable communities.
Through valuable corporate social investment, we are able to provide quality infrastructure, training and ongoing support to ensure thriving and sustainable home and community food gardens.
Classifications
Region
East and South Africa
Scale of implementation
Local
Ecosystem
Green spaces (parks, gardens, urban forests)
Urban ecosystem and build environment
Theme
Adaptation
Food security
Health and human wellbeing
Sustainable livelihoods
Challenges
Lack of alternative income opportunities
Changes in socio-cultural context
Lack of food security
Unemployment / poverty
Sustainable development goals
Aichi targets
Impacts
Our community gardens projects:
- Provide freshly harvested, chemical-free, packaging-free and travel-mile-free food available to our beneficiaries onsite at each of our 420+ projects! These gardens feed thousands of people every day.
- Provide jobs to previously unemployed community members. These individuals become garden champions who are trained by us and in partnership with our support teams, maintain beautiful and productive food gardens for beneficiary communities.
- Our garden installations include the temporary employment and upskilling of unemployed local community members for the duration of the building process.
- Our gardens provide outdoor classrooms and educational opportunities for school children who are invited to participate in and learn about all aspects of food gardening
- Our gardens use earthworm farming and aerobic composting to recycle green waste and kitchen wet waste into organic compost for use in gardens.
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Contributed by
Matthew Koehorst
Other contributors
Urban Harvest
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This solution is published in the Sustainable Urban Development and Resilience portal.
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