In 2012, the MEC for the Department of Economic Development and Tourism KZN, Michael Mabuyakhulu, announced plans for a cableway in the uKhahlamba region of the Drakensberg mountains, touting it as a potential tourism boost to the province.

The green supermarket rolled up their sleeves this Mandela day to help communities and celebrate ten years of service to vulnerable communities.

Who likes who in your food garden? Just like people, there are some that benefit each other and offer natural protection against predators. So it helps to know a little about companion planting when you plan your food garden.

Our next garden lesson involves the planning and planting of your seedlings, in your veggie beds.

Incorporating cabbage and mustard residue are effective and natural ways to reduce potato common scab.

If it is possible to transform a dead piece of grey gravel along a corporate building into a row of vegetable gardens abundantly delivering organic nourishment to hungry children attending a soup kitchen, then one can surely grow food almost anywhere?

There are many ways in which you could create a good bed for your vegetable plants. We are going to describe how to do one type for now – that of a Trench Bed (TB). This is ideal for those who believe they don’t have space for a vegetable bed.

It’s not so long ago that our gardens were productive as well as aesthetically pleasing, containing a veggie garden, a small orchard, and herbs and medicines too. How wonderful, but perhaps too much hard work? Or so thought some, as gardens moved away in disdain from anything productive or working class, to the opposite extreme of being purely decorative.

This 12-day Permaculture Design Course, facilitated by Jamie Shepherd, is run as a Correspondence Course, which includes practical and interactive weekends where you can practice what you've learnt.

The time has come to sow the seeds for our next veggie harvest. We trust that your compost is coming along nicely?

Hunger will be a thing of the past for around 70 orphaned, vulnerable and some HIV/AIDS infected and affected children at the Mangwana Day Care Centre.

This year the Indigenous Plant Fair returns to its roots at the KZN Botanic Gardens in Pietermaritzburg. Since those early days (2004), the Fair has grown to include food plants as well as hundreds of indigenous plants and, in 2012, to embrace low-carbon living by showcasing sustainable solutions too.

Essential in growing your own food is to keep it green all the way. So we will always be utilising waste items for all the processes which we teach. You don’t need to rush out and purchase special equipment.

Food Lovers Market in Noordhoek, Cape Town is the first retailer in South Africa to truly invest towards a zero waste solution by adopting a composting method which breaks down cooked food waste, helping to minimise the strain on our overflowing landfills.

Growing your own vegetables is a wonderful green passion that is spreading like wildfire across our country. We are all concerned about food security in the light of climate changes and threats to our water and soil resources.

I just love falling asleep to the hoo-hoo emanating from our forested front garden. They love the huge and untrimmed trees and probably the healthy supply of elephant shrew that reside amongst the shrubs and hide beneath the ivy.

Val Payn of the Green Gardens Project is writing a book about ecologically sustainable gardens in South Africa. She is looking for gardens that would provide good examples of inspiring, attractive, well planned and managed, ecologically sustainable gardens, to feature as inspirational and practical examples in her book.

Many of our readers would have heard of the organic gardening technique ‘companion planting’. Some of you may be confidently planting according to this method; others may be hard and fast sceptics. This final article in the ‘Stoep Harvest’ series will explain the ideas behind companion planting and give a list of examples for you to try in your garden.

Today we look at the concept of crop rotation – what is it, why do it and how does one go about doing it?

This is the title of a comprehensive and unusual gardening book and an all-round treasure for the environmentally conscious gardener.