Organic Veggies And The Determined Competence of Bored, Homeless Men

backyard garden with admirers
Backyard cultivation photo by kenny lynch is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Home gardening, like this example from the city of George, South Africa, can be a satisfying adventure. But creating a vibrant vegetable business is a whole other order of competence!

Move on, move on. Nothing to see here except vegetation. Unless, of course, you’re in the market for yummy organic veggies.

A mini-miracle comes courtesy of a modicum of farming know-how possessed by only one of a group of homeless men. They were ruminating on their COVID pandemic fate in a Durban, South Africa homeless shelter. The farmer’s knowledge was the pinch of magic that turned a discussion by a gang of men, unqualified for anything but hard work, into an old-fashioned ‘green’ revolution.

A lush organic produce farm has flourished on downtown Durban plot of land. Journalist Sue Derwent called herself humbled by it. ” …  it’s not run by some cute, trendy NGO doing an urban farming project to help the homeless. This is the homeless helping themselves.”

Read more about this good-news success story in sa people news: Homeless Men Turn Land Behind Durban’s Elangeni into Booming Organic Farm