Knowing Collective
The Collective is a mycelial network of partnerships and projects that exists to nurture the ways of knowing the world most needs:
practices and ideas that are system-shifting, life-affirming, and deeply relational.
It is a home for edge-walkers, thought-weavers, practitioners, and projects that resist conventional boxes but carry the seeds of profound transformation.
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The Mycelium
The Knowing Collective provides a home for a constellation of initiatives that stretch across themes, sectors, and timelines.
The world we want to see will not come from a single organisation, discipline, or programme. It will emerge through a web of diverse efforts that nourish our capacity to imagine, relate, and transform.
The Knowing Collective is part of that web.
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SI Wetland Case Study
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The Valley collaborative
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The Valley Collaborative
The Lynedoch Valley, which consists of the Vlottenburg, Vlaeberg and Lynedoch communities, is situated on the outskirts of Stellenbosch. Like much of South Africa, the Valley has beauty in its diversity but is also reflective of high levels of inequality.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, a collective from the community identified a number of vulnerable families in Lynedoch and Vlottenburg, and the group came together to help with food security and emergency healthcare relief. A community committee, in close collaboration with local NGOs, schools, farms and businesses, was formed to further understand the problems that the community faces and ways to make a change. The SI is a member of this collective.
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Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture in Southern Africa
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Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Southern Africa
As part of the continent-wide Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology (KCOA), KHSA supports multipliers of knowledge (farmer trainers, academic institutions, journalists, extension officers and more) across Zambia, Malawi, Namibia and South Africa.
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Eco-village
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Lynedoch Eco-village
The campus serves as a demonstration of regenerative living in action from the energy, water and waste management to biodiversity and food production, which serves as a model for others to follow. It also provides spaces for students and visitors to reflect, connect, and imagine more just futures.
The Lynedoch Eco-Village, part of our campus, is South Africa’s first socially-mixed, mixed-income eco-community. Organised around nature and child-centered schools, it demonstrates a self-reliant, ecologically designed urban system. By prioritising affordable housing and enabling ownership, the village has created a diverse community of residents living closely to nature. Its architecturally diverse, eco-friendly homes reflect a commitment to both human wellbeing and ecological balance.
Responsible resource management is part of creating regenerative futures.
Local Wild Food Hub
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Local Wild Food Hub
The Local Wild Food Hub (LWFH) is ensuring food sustainability within all our programmes by normalising the use of local indigenous foods. As an organisation, we are learning about, growing and eating the forgotten and ignored local indigenous plant foods of the Cape Floristic Region.
Our Nourish programme incorporate local indigenous plant foods and use them in the school feeding programme, meals prepared at the Green Café and for catering at events. Our food gardens are learning gardens, and we regularly include nature in the school curricula and extra mural activities. With the addition of collaborative research projects, it all serves to strengthen, enhance and encourage the use of indigenous plant foods.
Our Community of Practice links a wide network of practitioners across many disciplines who are also concerned with bringing wellness to local people and their local wild food landscapes.
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please contact : localwild@sustainabilityinstitute.net