Bulimi Community Garden
The Bulumi Community Garden project provides a safe space for participants to learn agribusiness skills and alternative, environmentally-friendly farming practices. The word ‘Bulimi’ in the local Chitonga language means ‘farming as a lifestyle’. The course is 6-months long and has been designed in a family-friendly way so that mothers can bring their children to the garden too.
The aims of the project include:
(1) Contribute toward reducing nutrition and food security concerns within Simonga by passing on vital knowledge in sustainable and organic farming methods.
(2) Improve human-animal conflict by working with local farmers to handle conflicts in a positive and productive way
(3) Increase the income of trainees by practising vegetable growing and marketing methods to generate sales and reduce household food expenditure
(4) To centre all elements of project activity around environmental and socio-cultural sustainability through engaging in eco-friendly practices, as well as integrating gardening practises with the textile studio (natural dyes)