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Wide of rooftop garden2. Mid of volunteers working on rooftop garden3. Tilt up from signage of rooftop garden to top of building4. Pan from city skyline to rooftop garden5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eJohannesburg, South Africa - September 22, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of rooftop garden\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of volunteers working on rooftop garden\u003cbr/\u003e3. Tilt up from signage of rooftop garden to top of building\u003cbr/\u003e4. Pan from city skyline to rooftop garden\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid of volunteer weeding on the rooftop garden\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close of weeding\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of Doreen Khumalo selecting some seedlings in the nursery\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (Shangaan) Doreen Khumalo, volunteer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Here in the nursery we have spinach, beetroot, turnip and tomato. We plant these seedlings in the garden by rotating the plants depending on the season. Every season I know which seedlings to plant, that way the garden is always full of vegetables. We always make seedlings, and even sell them separately.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJohannesburg, South Africa - September 21, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of Mabule Mokhine at work\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of Mabule Mokhine at work\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mabule Mokhine, Programme Manager, Greenhouse Project:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The urban environment by its very design is not sustainable. I mean, the food that we eat comes from somewhere else, the water that we eat and use comes from somewhere else. I mean, if you take the net resource use and output, we basically are producing more waste, and are using other people's environments to actually meet our needs.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJohannesburg, South Africa - September 22, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of Khumalo holding earthworms\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close of earth worms\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of recycled tyres used to grow the vegetables\u003cbr/\u003e15. wide of volunteers planting seedlings\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close of seedling being planted\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of Khumalo watering the vegetables\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close of vegetables being watered\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of volunteer Phile Nsele weeding around the vegetables\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close of Phile Nsele weeding\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (Zulu) Phile Nsele, volunteer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We do keep some of the vegetables for ourselves - we are all unemployed. If I am short of food at home I take some vegetables from the garden home.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of Khumalo harvesting spinach\u003cbr/\u003e23. Close up of spinach being harvested\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide of street trader Phutihiti selling spinach\u003cbr/\u003e25. Wide of pedestrian walking past row of spinach\u003cbr/\u003e26. Pan of spinach being sold on the street\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (Ndebele) Beauty Phutihiti, street trader:\u003cbr/\u003e\"These vegetables I sell come from the ladies from the rooftop garden. These are good quality vegetables that are good for your health. These organic vegetables are better than the ones you find in a shop.\"\u003cbr/\u003e28. Wide of Khumalo watering the rooftop vegetable garden\u003cbr/\u003e29. Close of vegetables being watered\u003cbr/\u003e30. SOUNDBITE (Shangaan) Doreen Khumalo, volunteer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We hope to expand to more rooftops in the future. This will help create jobs for the unemployed. There are many people living in the city who will benefit from eating organic vegetables.\"\u003cbr/\u003e31. wide of Johannesburg city buildings\u003cbr/\u003e32. wide of Johannesburg street\u003cbr/\u003e33. wide of rooftop garden\u003cbr/\u003e34. Wide of Johannesburg\u003cbr/\u003e35. Mid of city skyline\u003cbr/\u003eSouth Africa's inner cities are harsh places for the unemployed, especially poor rural migrants drawn there in the hope of a better life.\u003cbr/\u003eNow some of them are aiming high, growing organic vegetables on the roof of a city building.\u003cbr/\u003eAt first sight it looks like any other small scale garden.\u003cbr/\u003eBut look again and it's clear that this vegetable plot is surrounded by the city.\u003cbr/\u003eThis is the garden in the sky, Johannesburg's first ever rooftop plot for growing vegetables.\u003cbr/\u003eRecycled car tyres serve as improvised plant pots, while CDs dance in the wind to keep the birds away.\u003cbr/\u003eA small army of volunteers, from some of the city's poorest residential areas, tend the thriving crop.\u003cbr/\u003eThis is the work of The Greenhouse Project, a charitable foundation working towards sustainable and environmentally-friendly development.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Rooftop Garden opened in September 2011, the first of what they hope will be many rooftop plots in South Africa's commercial capital.\u003cbr/\u003eVolunteers like Doreen Khumalo, typical of the rural migrants to the city, can use their farming skills to grow a range of organic produce:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Here in the nursery we have spinach, beetroot, turnip and tomato. We plant these seedlings in the garden by rotating the plants depending on the season. Every season I know which seedlings to plant, that way the garden is always full of vegetables. We always make seedlings, and even sell them separately.\"\u003cbr/\u003eProgramme Manager Mabule Mokhine explains the thinking behind the project:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The urban environment by its very design is not sustainable. I mean, the food that we eat comes from somewhere else, the water that we eat and use comes from somewhere else. I mean, if you take the net resource use and output, we basically are producing more waste, and are using other people's environments to actually meet our needs.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe first rooftop vegetable garden is on top of the Affordable Housing (AFHCO) building in the city centre.\u003cbr/\u003eJohannesburg is a magnet for people from all over South Africa, drawn to the city looking for work.\u003cbr/\u003eEverything here is organic, with earthworms employed to turn organic waste into a rich soil fertiliser.\u003cbr/\u003ePest control is managed by using herbs.\u003cbr/\u003eThe tyres are donated by a tyre company in the city, another effective way of making waste products work for the environment rather than against it.\u003cbr/\u003eFor the otherwise unemployed volunteers like Phile Nsele, the benefits are even more tangible:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We do keep some of the vegetables for ourselves - we are all unemployed. If I am short of food at home I take some vegetables from the garden home.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe rest of the vegetables are sold by traders on the city streets. Being organic is an added bonus says sales trader Beauty Phutihti:\u003cbr/\u003e\"These vegetables I sell come from the ladies from the rooftop garden. These are good quality vegetables that are good for your health. These organic vegetables are better than the ones you find in a shop.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe hope is that more rooftop gardens will help the local economy, says Khumalo. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We hope to expand to more rooftops in the future. This will help create jobs for the unemployed. 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