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One organic food garden planted on the Wellington School of Skill\u2019s (WSOS) premises pulled many Drakenstein initiatives together to aid local patients fighting drug-resistant tuberculosis (DRTB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Val de Vie Foundation responded to a plea by NorSA Community Care and assembled a team from the WSOS, Western Cape Department of Health and Seed2Harvest to install a 330 m\u00b2 organic food garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This would also serve as an educational offering for the school, with the potential to yield 180 kg of nutritious vegetables per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crops harvested by role-players and learners alike can possibly feed DRTB patients facing the daily reality of swallowing at least 20 pills a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clinical manager in the department of health Dr Rushaan Gaffoor explains why this garden would benefit drug-resistant patients suffering from the world\u2019s most infectious killer diseases prominent in parts of the nation, such as the Western Cape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStruggling patients suffering from DRTB often prematurely abandon their treatment as they can\u2019t always afford highly nutritional food to help digest such big dosages. Nutritional vegetables form a solid stomach lining that helps them keep all their medication down. It will also benefit as a general healthy dietary measure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Val de Vie\u2019s Lorraine Hadfield introduced Wednesday\u2019s launch of the garden as \u201ca dream come true\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen the principal of WSOS, Graeme Cupido, and the school\u2019s governing body were asked to partner in this project their answer was a resounding \u2018yes!\u2019. They offered a piece of land for the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnother organisation Seed2Harvest joined in and planted 15 of their revolutionary Organic Garden Starter Kits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The owner of Seed2Harvest, Shaun Cairns, told Paarl Post<\/span> his business was happy to equip the project with these starter kits valued at R899 per box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Twelve heirloom varieties of seeds were planted by the partnership in a 330m2(square m) organic food garden at the WSOS premises.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI also call it concept boxes with 12 heirloom varieties of seeds with integrated pest management solutions, a three-month fertiliser programme and added bio-stimulants to keep improving soil fertility.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cairns said this starter kit is ideal for a fresh garden tended by those who need to learn the entire rigmarole of organic gardening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis kit will even allow one to grow veg in sand. It has a growing guide with a 12-week crop protection and fertiliser programme. All one needs do is follow it diligently every step of the way. It simply cannot fail \u2013 with maximum yield guaranteed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is this concept of gardening that will literally take one from seed to harvest on schedule by simply doing what it tells one to do.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cairns has also committed his time on a bi-weekly basis to make sure the growing garden goes according to plan. In the meantime, he said, learners at the school will help to tend it with an educational programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his speech Cupido mentions the school\u2019s privilege to have been considered in this partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re humbled and privileged being the one of many schools on the way to Wellington, to be offered this opportunity. I immediately said yes, as a devotion to serving this community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He meant to say that they cannot change the town as a whole, \u201cbut we will <\/span>make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crops harvested on their premises will be channelled through NorSA\u2019s Newrest soup kitchen devoted to feeding their beneficiaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The community care centre\u2019s programme manager, Petra Nel, expressed great gratitude on behalf of its 83 DRTB patients who receive monthly rounds of treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: \u201cOften our beneficiaries come to NorSA to collect their medication. Sadly, many of them return home after the added expense of travelling to and fro . . . returning home to little to no nutritional foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe express our thanks to every role-player who helped make this a reality by strengthening the collective response of NorSA\u2019s resources.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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