Soil for Life
Build the soil; grow the plants; feed the people; heal the planet

To all who must eat to live, there is hope.
Grow your own food.
It's the simplest (and cheapest) way to good health.

Soil for Life is a Cape Town-based NGO which teaches people to grow their own food, and works with the premise - healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy people.  Home and community food gardens are designed to maximise production in small spaces, to conserve water and make use of all available resources that would otherwise end up in already over-burdened land-fill sites, and to avoid, at all costs, the need for artificial fertilisers and poisonous sprays.
The organisation:

• Runs hands-on practical education and training courses in:
• small-scale organic food and herb production.
• soil improvement methods.
• waste recycling, composting and vermiculture.
• health and nutrition.
• nursery skills and plant propagation.
• food processing and preserving.
• setting up local markets, and running small businesses.
• Provides ongoing support and advice.
• Encourages the development of local networks and support groups and
• Runs a membership which enables members to buy low-cost seed and plants, and keeps them in touch with what is going on through a quarterly newsletter.

Soil for Life's work in the communities demonstrate some very simple, yet important, principles:

• All gardens grow 'food' in one way or another; they provide food for the body, the mind and the soul.
• Work with Mother Nature, not against her.
• 'Waste not, want not.'
• Nature turns all its waste into food.
• We're all a part of the great web of life.

What goes around comes around.