At the end of June 2021, the Overstrand Executive Mayor handed over trays of beetroot, spinach, broccoli and onion seedlings in communities of the Greater Gansbaai area. This will give more residents the opportunity to fight food insecurity by growing food for their families in their own backyard.
Almost 600 community members in Masakhane, Blompark, Pearly Beach and Stanford are beneficiaries of the seedlings for their home gardens.
These include people who have an existing vegetable garden, as well as those who indicated that they would like to start with the One Household one Garden programme. Community gardens also benefited from this handover.
On delivering his speech, Mayor Coetzee emphasised that the Covid-19 virus has had and will, for the foreseeable future, continue to have a devasting impact on the members of our community who, even before the start of the pandemic, found it difficult to put food on the table.
