{"id":49980,"date":"2020-09-03T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T11:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/unemployed-men-make-food-gardening-fashionable-again-20200902-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T07:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:50:03","slug":"unemployed-men-make-food-gardening-fashionable-again-20200902-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/unemployed-men-make-food-gardening-fashionable-again-20200902-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployed men make food gardening \u2018fashionable\u2019 again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_ac801cf8\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3103\/ec1b7ba50a7d410db33c5c22cd1eb986.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3103\/9e6223623e6a4973a95a921eb13cb2ff.jpeg\" title=\"RIGHT: Mendo Vece, Siyabulela Booysen and Sakhumzi Mbaduli developed a food garden next to Babs Madlakane Hall during the COVID-19 lockdown.     Photo:THAMSANQA MBOVANE\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">RIGHT: Mendo Vece, Siyabulela Booysen and Sakhumzi Mbaduli developed a food garden next to Babs Madlakane Hall during the COVID-19 lockdown.     Photo:THAMSANQA MBOVANE<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>IN March three unemployed men from KwaNo-buhle, Uitenhage, decided to start growing their own food. As it turned out, a week later the COVID-19 national lockdown started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siyabulela Booysen, Sakhumzi Mbaduli and Mendo Vece had no experience. They started by collecting empty bottles from friends and family and selling them to get the money they needed to buy seedlings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The caretaker of Babs Madlakane Hall, who lives on the site, gave them permission to use his yard at the back of the hall for free. Mbaduli said they cleared the land of broken glass, litter and weeds. They organised fertiliser and manure and planted spinach, cabbage and beetroot first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Operating on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, their Lima Gardening Initiative is showing promise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday we sowed broccoli, fresh mint, and carrot and we have 25 plots on this land,\u201d said Mbaduli. \u201cWe could employ a lot of youth via this project by mid-September, when we are ready to harvest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Customer Mzimkhulu Mayo, who was buying a bunch of spinach for R7, said, \u201cIt encourages me to buy locally and also to promote gardening projects to be a habit to our community, especially during this time of Covid-19 \u2026 Unemployment is rising, more especially for the youth \u2026 So indeed it\u2019s a pleasure for me to support this kind of project in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Booysen said they planned to make gardening \u201cfashionable\u201d again. \u201cGardening is regarded as old people\u2019s work and the youth think they cannot form part of it,\u201d he said. \u201cIn our township it\u2019s mainly old pensioners who are into gardening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vece said, \u201cWe will sell vegetables at affordable prices and the profit will go into making a soup kitchen. 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