Enviro Solutions Centre

In 2021 my wife Steph & I wanted to get out of the city. Friends offered us the opportunity to live in our caravan on their small holding & set up a 1/4 acre food garden. This garden "Flow" has become our place to grow our own food, herbs, seeds and be a place of learning for the community.
With a background in organic agriculture & permaculture Flow was designed & implemented according to these principles as a market garden.
We make all our own compost from garden waste & horse manure. We also keep a large worm farm & include aspects of Biodynamic, KNF & Jadam Natural Farming systems ensuring that all inputs are organic & home made.
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We grow local organic vegetables for ourselves & our community. We sell through a few local channels.
We also grow lots of seed. These seeds get distributed into the community around us

Like so many of my generation i grew up i front of the TV. I was lucky, growing up in Newlands East in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, I got to play out in the fields of peri rural KZN. I got a taste for the outdoors and after I had realised that my ambitions for the film industry were base less I found myself looking for a life that counts for more. It was at 29 that I discovered the joy of growing plants. This became a life long passion & the root of my spiritual practice. As a community worker & farmer my work brings together my own agricultural practice in my 1/4 acre food garden "Flow" with my community work which involves promoting & supporting small scale food gardeners in rural communities.
With my wife Steph Lambert we are building our dreams together. We have access to a friends piece of land where we have our garden that feeds us, grows seeds for community distribution & serves as a training & demonstration garden. We have also started a community interventions aimed at mobilizing food growers in the community of Railton, Swellendam. The only resource we distribute is seeds, on 1 September we start our vegetable seed distribution process aimed at catalysing the start of the network of food gardeners.
We use ABCD as a tool as well as the content for our training. By teaching community members & leaders how they can make best use of the assets around them we empower them to direct the development of their own community.

I guess we are living Our Dream. Next is we need to find funders who are passionate about the intersection of Agroecology, ABCD & Gender (including Violence) to support our work.

I have been working in the environmental & community development sector in South Africa for 16 years. I have worked for large national & international project but always preferred to find small community based initiatives to volunteer at. I spent 7 years at Goedgedacht Trust learning under Peter Templeton the "subtle art of stumbling through", which is what he called social development. I served as project manager for "Goedgedacht Care for the Planet", developing & implementing ABCD based projects that were way more successful than anyone had anticipated.
In 2020 as the pandemic continued