SEED – news as at end of 2010

The activities at SEED continue to expand through out the country. One thing they have spent time on centrally is improving their monitoring and evaluation procedures.

In the Cape Flats the garden at Springdale School is forging ahead with ground staff, principal, teachers, parents and soup kitchen chefs all involved. The school employs a gardener full time. The pupils are maintaining and watering the plants they planted. All year they harvested a wide range of vegetables and herbs from ‘one of the windiest and sandiest schools in the Cape Flats’. This has been helped by the construction of yet more windbreaks. The feeding programme culminated in an end of year harvest feast where over 50 pupils were fed with a vegetable stew. Plans for 2011 include the planting of more trees.

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          Vegetable bed                                         Preparing the vegetable stew

Progress at Caravelle Primary has been mixed. Conflicts led to the loss of the volunteer gardener, but since then more staff have become involved in the garden, and the school will be employing a gardener two days a week.

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