Sisonke Durban Garden

03/06/2025

Lovely visit to the Garden today by people interested in its journey ...part of eThekwini's Enviroweek 🌿. Thank you for coming 🙂

01/06/2025

09/05/2024

There definitely must be a place for locally produced food that creates micro-enterprise and health giving opportunity in the activity, reduces food miles and provides fresh produce for the good of all its eaters. And provides opportunity to create compost in the gardens to divert up to 40% of this 'waste'=resource stream, for the good of local soil
regeneration. Let's keep gardening and making compost!

# urbanfarming Compost Awareness Week

Not that we ever doubted it, but this is very encouraging to read given the work that a lot of you are doing out there in South Africa and beyond, be it on vacant city plots like here at Sisonke Durban Garden or rural smallholdings!

Bear in mind however, the results of this study will be influenced by the high yields of urban hydroponic produce, which is not inherently sustainable or regenerative (conventional hydroponics relies on extracted or synthesized nutrients). But with the power and resilience of agroecology, anything is possible 💪

Read more at the opensource link below, or search online: 'How Much Food Can We Grow in Urban Areas? Food Production and Crop Yields of Urban Agriculture: A Meta-Analysis'. Payen et al, 2022. Earth's Future

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF002748



📷 Sisonke Durban Garden, KZN 2023.

10/04/2024

We’re thrilled to introduce a groundbreaking initiative that aims to empower a small startup farm just outside Bloemfontein, South Africa. Our crowdfunding proposal seeks to raise $12 000 to establish a sustainable egg production system that promotes ethical pastured poultry and regenerative a

17/01/2024

New opportunities.....Sisonke is looking for two passionate and committed growers to join the team. If you enjoy growing food, working outdoors and want to be part of an urban food farm please be in touch. Ideally to live in central Durban too, as would make your travelling time easier.

04/01/2024

Happy new year from Sisonke Durban Garden! One person we are so grateful for is social worker Zodwa Msuthu who helped particularly with setting up banking for the growers....and continues each month. Thanks Zodwa, for being a crucial part of the team. Here's to good growing, increasing markets and continued earnings for the garden, in 2024!

14/12/2023

Sisonke and Davenport Park gardens have got new signage to add to their new wheels! Our thanks to Graphic911 in Overport for gratuitously printing some of the lovely signs for the trailers, as well as Drew Hyett of the R100 Buck company, for doing the rest. And to the Savanna Foundation for providing the funding.

05/12/2023

https://youtu.be/hyT-6qiubd0

07/11/2023

Rainy day happiness ...getting a composting pile in order. What a difference a jcb makes ....and many willing hands. All that plastic litter gotta get out the woodchip pile before we go any further ....

03/11/2023

Exciting day today as both Sisonke + Davenport Parks got sets of wheels donated by eThekwini Transport Authority and GO!Durban Cycle Academy - meaning autonomous deliveries to those slightly further afield. And thank you to Savanna Foundation for cargo trailer for Sisonke, Davenport Park was able to buy its own using income earned from veg sales. Saving time for faster deliveries and making growers independent in deliveries. Healthy exercise riding a bike, healthy lifestyle eating fresh produce - and no pollution with our zero waste deliveries. This is paradigm shift in motion/ great green economy exemplar, for Durban!

26/10/2023

This week the three urban food gardens have been blessed by a donation of seven x 210 litre drums for water collection at Sisonke, Davenport Park and an entrepreneurial garden start up on the Berea. Our humble thanks to Krishen + Avikar of Drumpal who responded so favourably to our ask. In gardens with only 1 tap between them all (!) this will be a game changer for local collection of water over the rainy season. Thank you Drumpal!