Heart, a registered Non Profit Organisation, developed FoodTents to enable NGOs and schools to grow their own food. A FoodTent is like a big tent made of shade cloth. It is 2m high, 4m wide and 9m long, and can be erected in a couple of hours, including vegetable planting. This make-shift greenhouse increases the production of vegetables significantly. We recently transitioned into the new GrowZone model which includes 10 tents on one site, as opposed to the previous single-tent model. We found that a bigger amount of tents is more efficient in terms of maintenance and thereby can provide more vegetables to the communities in need.
Also, the GrowZone model means that their operators receive 1 year of NQF level 4 training in agricultural and business skills at no charge. This is to make sure that they can access markets and produce the vegetables in a manner that they can be sold and with the proceeds support the maintenance of the tent in the future.
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