Help Soil for Life NPC by providing garden tools and inputs for their Home Food Gardening Programme in low income areas
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Home & Garden items
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Garden
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Help Soil for Life NPC by providing garden tools and inputs for their Home Food Gardening Programme in low income areas
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Soil for Life hold two 12-week courses each year which provide organic vegetable garden training to roughly 300 unemployed community members. The course covers both gardening training and basic health and wellness information. Trainees are divided into groups of 12-15 people all of whom live in close proximity to one another. Each group receives a set of large and small gardening tools that they share. In addition, each trainee receives the inputs needed to start their own vegetable garden at home i.e. compost, manure, mulch, seeds, and seedlings. After completing the 12-week course, trainees are transitioned on to the 9-month support programme during which the trainers visit each person monthly at home to monitor their garden's progress and provide advice and support.
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