Update on the Strachan's Food Security Project - February 2020

The Strachan’s food security project continues to expand and now involves two sites in the Umzimkhulu area, namely, Waschbank and Highlands. HGA, through Standard Bank funding, was able to provide with the basic tools to households who have recently joined the project in order for them to begin cultivation of their home gardens. The simple yet effective agro-ecological techniques being taught communities only require garden forks and rope which is used to measure the planting intervals for the maize and vegetables that are grown. Mr Strachan purchases the inputs in bulk, repackaging this into amounts suitable for this scale of cultivation, following which a project participant sells the inputs to community members.