Food for Ons Huisie

 

Following the launch of a Power of Community movement in Ocean View this year, Creating Change organized a backyard garden workshop at Ons Huisie Retirement Home in Ocean View on the 18th of November. This is one of 2 workshops sponsored through the Ward 61 counselor, Simon Liel-Cock. 

 

Facilitatore and Change Agent Marryna Bosazza taught 20 residents on how to convert a backyard into a lush vegetable garden.

 

This hands on workshop assisted and expanded the existing vegetable garden managed by Lilly Lawrence’s (a resident at Ons Huisie) that feeds the residents at Ons Huisie,  chemically free and nutritional food. 

 

“Many hands make light work is a perfect example of the Power of Community”, says Liesel James from Creating Change,” not only did we clear, convert and expand a small vegetable garden to a lush garden full of biodiversity, but we also implemented a compost heap for the next planting season and created a recreational area for the elderly to enjoy the tranquility of the garden under a tree.”