Food Garden Visit & Seed Exchange – Roseway Waldorf School, Hillcrest, South Africa

On the green hills of KwaZulu Natal is situated the Roseway Waldorf School,  on top of Alverstone Hill, a conservancy, surrounded by farmsteads, fresh air and overlooking green valley, just five minutes outside Hillcrest.

Biodiversity to nurture people. The school has an completely organic food garden, using bio dynamic techniques. Huge variety of crops are grown, and used in the school kitchen, the excess yield is sold to the parents.

Invitation. The Green Camp Seed Bank Comittee is inivited to the Roseway Waldorf School, who look for heirloom and natural open pollenated seed, who also practise seed saving. August 5th 2015 has been earmarked for the school visit and as well as seed exchange.

If you would like to attend the school garden visit and seed exchange, please rsvp: greendelwyn@gmail.com

Footnotes:

*Waldorf education (also known as Steiner education) is a humanistic approach to pedagogy based on the educational philosophy of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Learning is interdisciplinary, integrating practical, artistic, and conceptual elements. The approach emphasizes the role of the imagination in learning, developing thinking that includes a creative as well as an analytic component. The educational philosophy’s overarching goals are to provide young people the basis on which to develop into free, morally responsible and integrated individuals, and to help every child fulfill his or her unique destiny, the existence of which anthroposophy posits. Schools and teachers are given considerable freedom to define curricula within collegial structures

*The Green Camp Community Seed Bank was initiated as a result of the workshop, held at the I.D Green Camp on 8 June 2015

Objectives

To maintaining varieties of seeds for local use in growing systems for the direct benefit of a community.

Function

The GC Seed Bank shall function as a community seed bank. Community seed banks store and manage seeds that aim to provide community members with seeds to use.

Resolve and Commitment

GC Seed Bank resolve and commitment is aligned to that of the ‘Global Movement for Seed Freedom

More info: http://seedfreedom.info/partners/citizen-gardens-south-africa/