With plastic bottels, broken tiles and all sorts of recycled building materials, three community members built a garden and are now boasting abundant crops in ’n public garden in Fauna.
The garden named Lumela/Believe, is the brainchild of Marlé and Brian Robinson and Secret Legae on a park on the corner of Koedoe Road, Nyala and Bosbok Streets.
“We started with the idea of a community garden around two years ago,” Brian explains. They applied at the Parks Section of the Managung Metro to create a garden as part of the metro’s Adopt-a-Park Project.
They got the confirmation to go ahead with their plan and in October 2021, the threesome started planting and maintaining a huge variety of vegetables and fruit trees in a part of the park.
Dave McKay, DA Council Member of the area, along with Douglas Lamb from the Eric Lamb Nursery, donated 10 fruit trees that Dave handed over on Tuesday (06/12).
These fruit trees include peaches, apricots and walnut trees.
Ané Kruger also donated lots of malva plants for the garden.
“Community members are welcome to harvest some of the vegetables and fruits for their own use,” Brian said.
“The heaps at the back of the garden, are our compost heaps that we build,” Marlé explains. “The ground in the park is very infertile, so we used heaps of mulch in all the beds.”
Some of the veggies that is grown in the garden, include spinage, tomatoes, letters, beetroot, melons, pumkins, onions, beans and many more.
“Community members are welcome to come and start their own patch of community garden around our garden,” Brian invited.
