Harvesting vegetables for the children meals
Children can enjoy every day a hot meal that uses some fresh vegetables they grow in the pilot garden.
A desired water pipe!
posted in: Rubric South Africa, Water management
Roosboom has been depending for years on a large tank of communal water, randomly refilled. This has led often to shortage of water, challenging the garden, specially during dry season. Designing Hope invested in a piping system to bring water from … Read More
Preparing new raised beds
posted in: Permaculture, Raised garden beds, Rubric South Africa
The children of Roosboom work together and create new raised beds.
Milpa
posted in: Companion planting, Permaculture, Rubric South Africa
Children from Roosboom showing their milpa plot, combining maize, squash and beans.
Building a henhouse using recycled materials
posted in: Chicken, Crops and livestock, recovery, Silethithemba garden - Roosboom
Canned red beans are used for the daily meals cooked to the children of Roosboom. The children were asked to retrieve the empty boxes, flatten them to form a recovery material to make the walls of a henhouse. Women then … Read More
Garden Maintenance, Roosboom – South Africa
posted in: Rubric South Africa, Watering
During the few hours they spend daily at the Roosboom halfway House, the children work in groups in the garden and are in charge of its maintenance. During the winter season, crops are limited, and cabbage is the plant that … Read More