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Wide of gardener, Philippa Ndamane working in the garden2. Close of Ndamane pulling onions 3. Mid of leeks growing 4. Close-up of sign reading: (English) \"Plot No 39, Eggplant\"5. Garden with mountain in background6....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e20 January 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of gardener, Philippa Ndamane working in the garden\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of Ndamane pulling onions \u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of leeks growing \u003cbr/\u003e4. Close-up of sign reading: (English) \"Plot No 39, Eggplant\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Garden with mountain in background\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close-up of tomato plant \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Philippa Ndamane, organic gardener:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now we plant tomatoes, onion, beans, carrots.  We plant potatoes.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Ndamane walking in garden, fixing tomato plants\u003cbr/\u003e9.  SOUNDBITE: (English) Philippa Ndamane, organic gardener:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The organic food, it's not a big, it's not a big cabbage like this, and now when you open the cabbage, it's white inside, you see - the organic food is always green.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of growers working in garden \u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gladys Poza, organic gardener:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I've got a big familyďż˝.I've got a big family.  I plant here, and I don't want to sell to anyone, because my family is too big.  My grandchildren are 22.  Great-grannies (grandchildren) 24.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of Poza and founder of environmental group and non-governmental Organisation (NGO), Abalimi Bezekhaya, Rob Small, greeting each other\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of Khayelitsha township and mountains\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rob Small, founder of NGO, Abalimi Bezekhaya:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The reality is that, probably, in this country, there wouldn't be an urban agriculture movement like there is now, in Cape Town, and there are, there is a movement in other city centres as well, if there wasn't 40 percent unemployment, or 30 percent unemployment, and this desperate situation.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of Abalimi Garden Centre exterior\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of shrubs outside garden centre \u003cbr/\u003e17. Greenhouse doorway \u003cbr/\u003e18. Close of seedlings\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE:  (English) Liziwe Stofile, Abalimi trainer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're working with people, from two square metres, that is the size of the door. That is your garden. We call that a garden. If you've got a space like that, you can start growing your own vegetables.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Garden worker at office desk, seed cans in background\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various of seed cans \u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Liziwe Stofile,  Abalimi trainer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Because we're not working with chemicals, we're doing natural things.  We're using natural things like composting, and then we use all the waste that is around us, to make your soil fertile.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Various of house with corn growing in front \u003cbr/\u003e24. Various of onions \u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rob Small, founder of NGO, Abalimi Bezekhaya:  \u003cbr/\u003e\"Our aim is to settle most of the movement at livelihood, because most of the movement is made up of women, who have children and community to look after, and they want the money but they also want the vegetables.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide of Tuesday market day sorting and packing the vegetables\u003cbr/\u003e27. Close-up of carrots\u003cbr/\u003e28. Various of tomatoes being packed\u003cbr/\u003e29. Mid of vegetable boxes being packed\u003cbr/\u003e30. Close of vegetable boxes\u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNBITE: (English) Christina Kaba, programme manager for Harvest of Hope:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In Khayelitsha, we've got vegetables, but no money to buy.  At suburbs, we've got community with some money.  And we speak with those women to women to help each other. Those ones outside in suburbs with the money, they support those ones who've got the soil to grow, organic and nutrition good vegetables.  It's our market.\"\u003cbr/\u003e32. Close-up of baby marrow plants \u003cbr/\u003e33. SOUNDBITE: (English) Philippa Ndamane, organic gardener:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Baby marrowsďż˝.every Tuesday its producing something.. it's healthy food.\"\u003cbr/\u003e34. Wide of garden \u003cbr/\u003eMaking a living from the ground can be hard work - but to feed your family from a small patch of earth no bigger than the size of the average dinner table might seem impossible. \u003cbr/\u003eBut that's what's being achieved in poor townships outside Cape Town.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Harvest of Hope project is part of a movement to give gardening advice and the hope of a better future to thousands of people.\u003cbr/\u003ePhilippa Ndamane, who is 74, is one of six gardeners on a 5,000 square metre (16,404 square feet) Municipal plot in the town of Philippi.  \u003cbr/\u003eShe grows a variety of vegetables to feed her family as well as to sell through the \"Harvest of Hope\" programme in Cape Town.\u003cbr/\u003eFor Ndamane, organic means green and fresh vegetables and quality - not size.  \u003cbr/\u003eAbalimi works with over 50 community and institutional gardens and hundreds of individuals - totalling 2,000 individual member gardeners. The group promotes self-sustainability and encourages small, organic gardening practices.\u003cbr/\u003eThey aim to develop organic vegetable gardens in order to supplement people's diet, improve household food and nutritional security and provide a sustainable additional income.\u003cbr/\u003eGladys Poza isn't interested in the commercial capability of her vegetables.  The 86-year-old, like many elderly in South Africa today, is still working to feed her family of over 46 members. \u003cbr/\u003eRob Small, Abalimi's founder, has noticed an increase in what he calls the 'Urban agriculture movement' due to the increased cost of living and high unemployment.  \u003cbr/\u003eIndividuals and groups are forced into agriculture in these urban settings by hunger.  Organic vegetables are grown in hundreds of gardens in the townships to sustain the communities.\u003cbr/\u003eIndividuals wanting to start their own gardens can head to the Abalimi Garden centre.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's found behind a Catholic church and community centre, and is a green oasis in the dry and sandy township of Khayelitsha.  \u003cbr/\u003eHere they can receive training and support in form of seeds, seedlings and manure. \u003cbr/\u003eFor less than one US dollar they can get a garden started, with seeds and manure.  Another two US dollars will give a new grower a two year membership, offering them daily advice, discounted seeds and plants and general support.  \u003cbr/\u003eAbalimi's Liziwe Stofile is a trainer and fieldworker based at the Khayelitsha Garden Centre.  She encourages people to start their garden with whatever space they have available.  No garden is too small.  \u003cbr/\u003eGrowing methods taught by Stofile and other Abalimi workers encourage practices that are inexpensive for the grower, encourage water conservation, and are practical.  \u003cbr/\u003eWhile the gardens are not certified as strictly \"organic\", no pesticides or chemicals are used, and they use organic methods.\u003cbr/\u003eMany houses in the townships are now showing an abundance of edible greenery in their front and backyards.\u003cbr/\u003eOver the years many of Abalimi's members are producing a great surplus and so now, after feeding their families, the rest is sold locally or given away. \u003cbr/\u003eGrowers have little access to outside markets to sell their high quality produce.\u003cbr/\u003eThis is where Harvest of Hope comes into its own, providing a new market for excess produce. \u003cbr/\u003eThey collect from the various gardens involved, make up mixed and varied vegetable boxes and take them to schools where parents collect them for their homes. \u003cbr/\u003eA full box of seasonal organic vegetables, enough to feed a family, costs 95 rand (10 US dollars) per week, explains 60-year-old Christina Kaba, who is the programme manager for Harvest of Hope.  \u003cbr/\u003eSo at the end of a hard day's work in the garden, Ndamane's surplus vegetables can earn her approximately 90 US dollars per month in profits - double her monthly pension.  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