Bulawayo Community Members Find True Value in Nutritional Gardens

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The members of the garden have been deploying proceeds from selling of their produce to sustain the garden and improve the quality of their lives.

They use the profit from the garden to purchase farming inputs and, implements such as pesticides and then use the profits to benefit their families from the additional income.

“We have used the money to buy things like seeds, fertilisers, sprays and other chemicals to treat our crops. This garden has helped us a lot as it caters for a lot of people who come from less privileged and vulnerable families,” said Mrs Saziso Chikuse, who is the chairlady of Entabeni Garden chairlady.

“These gardens are proving to be a blessing for all of us here. Everyone benefits as all sectors of the community are catered for. We have members from child-headed families, people either infected or affected by HIV/AIDS and old people who do not have any other means to fend for themselves. For instance, there is an old lady who lives with her grandson and she has absolutely no other source of income and therefore solely depends on this garden for her livelihood,” said Mrs Barbara Mlalazi, a member of a recently established garden in the same Ward.