… projects done
Township Roof Gardens
During the years of apartheid, informal settlements where seen by the government as temporary human settlement areas. This resulted in NGO’s operating within townships forced to made do with non-formal structures like shipping containers. These shipping containers have remained in there hundreds across South Africa and are generally in use today.
Space in informal settlements is at a premium, and with no or little land on which to built houses, the possibility of securing land for the purposes of organic, healthy for consumption food products seems slim.
However, with a bit of creative thinking, one realizes that the space on top of these shipping containers is available, off the ground, a free.
The concept here is top combine the need for production of organic vegetables with the space offered on the roof-tops of shipping containers.
The result is the ‘roof-top container nursery” project, piloted in Masiphumelele.
Masiphumele, 2002