Learning under lockdown

Learning under lockdown

Engaging with children and youth in the Lynedoch Valley that do not have access to online learning With the start of the lockdown at the end of March 2020, the first order of the day nationally was to ensure that business could continue by taking everything online –...
Healthy ecosystems for the stewards of our land

Healthy ecosystems for the stewards of our land

Climate, Environment and Economic Development: The importance of regenerative agriculture as an approach to sustainable development in South Africa “We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you...
Lynedoch Valley Collaborative feeds 400 families weekly

Lynedoch Valley Collaborative feeds 400 families weekly

In partnership with Spier, the Sustainability Institute has been supporting over 400 families in the Lynedoch and Vlottenburg Valley communities with community food deliveries for the past six weeks as part of the Lynedoch Valley Collaborative. Ashleigh Seals, Youth...
Celebrating soil, soul and society

Celebrating soil, soul and society

This year, we also re-launched our Soil, Soul and Society series as a collaboration between Lynedoch, the Sustainability Institute and Eve Annecke, Bertha Fellow – taking form through a serious of intimate dialogues and deep questioning about the matters that matter...
Summer harvest at the Living Soils Community Learning Farm

Summer harvest at the Living Soils Community Learning Farm

Within eight months of starting with the project, the first harvest of vegetables from the Living Soils Community Learning farm started in November 2019 and since then, approximately 1700 kilograms of produce have been harvested from just under a hectare land. The...