We would need a number of volunteers to help with a number of garden tasks, from mixing and laying the manure, making seed beds, planting the seeds, watering the seeds, creating a straw cover for the seeds, section an area off for the crèche to mix their own manure. The volunteers would also spend some time interacting with the children at the crèche and getting to know how the Heart Foundation is involved.

It would take place at one of our crèches in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. As mentioned previously, we, at the Heart Foundation are very involved in a number of crèches and primary schools throughout South Africa. We teach the children about “Heart Healthy Habits” from a young age, but a number of the lower income groups could not afford these healthy food alternatives and so Sow-a-Seed was born. The children who mainly consumed a cereal-based diet with staple foods being phutu, bread and rice, would now have an increased intake of mixed vegetables and fruit, thereby improving the vitamin content in their diets.