Our gardens are an interactive teaching and learning space that grow organic, fresh produce. The food garden is situated on a half hectare of land, managed by Yoliswa Mahobe and our grounds team. The fresh veggies produced go into our Farm to Fork school feeding programmes, as well as being sold to the our Nourish team. Here, we have a living example of how to grow and sell vegetables on a very small scale.

Our food garden is also used as an integrated learning space for children across our learning programmes, as well as adults that attend short courses, workshops or the students from Stellenbosch University and other tertiary institutions. This is part of our broader approach to learning where we try to create a mix of experiences across a diversity of social worlds that are rarely connected together in a single space.

The woodland s a natural sanctuary and has been in creation since the early 2000’s. Over the years hundreds of trees, plants and shrubs – all indigenous – have been planted by learners, students, staff and visitors to help regenerate the ecosystem and create a protected space that can be enjoyed by all, humans and animals alike.

Lynedoch is pioneering approaches to creating socially diverse ecological communities. The Eco-Village is an ecologically designed, socially mixed community built around a learning precinct. It is a mixed community of 30 families from diverse racial and social economic groups built around a child-centred learning precinct, that is a financially and economically viable community requiring no external funding to sustain itself. It is also a working example of a livable ecologically designed urban system that challenges the notion that sustainable development and ecological building is too expensive. Various ecological design approaches have been integrated into the building of the Eco-Village. https://lynedochecovillage.wordpress.com/