Monthly Archives: May 2016
Westbury Youth Centre began with a dream and vision to fulfill the need for a place the community could not only call their own, but also a place that would take care of their own; take care of their future. They have various programs to assist community, including a fantastic garden. They strive to empower the youth and community through skills development, multimedia , community outreach and education. Truly a place of hope, providing opportunities, developing great citizens, offering alternatives to substance abuse.
I was fortunate to meet Harry from Little Green Men in my garden at Pirates, who took me to a meeting at the Centre. In this meeting we decided to redesign and integrate much more variety of plants, and community activities to help the garden grow. We decided to start tomorrow, and in we went with Nklandla and Josef from the Pirates garden and began to utilize and remove waste from the space.
This is how it started…
Along with some awesome volunteer students from the centre and community, we have been digging swales and planting seeds, redoing the entire garden and adding alot more surface area to plant in for a start. Below are more images of progress and updates will be posted regularly on the Little Green Men website.
Here the guys were using waste materials to construct our gate for the potting area.
Also made use of some of the waste creating an awesome potting area and below are the beginnings of my mind map of things to come…
…. and so it is some areas ready for planting now early May 2016 please go to the Little Green Men page and sign up for some of the harvest at only R70 for the contents of a box and a once off fee of R50 for a box made by the school can help us get books and other items for the school and continue to grow a supply of food for the centre and community around it as well.
The potting area in progress… 
If you would like to donate any plants or seedlings that are either medicinal or edible please contact me on 072 146 9017 or nntreasure@gmail.com Thank you to Shahn from The Kitchen Garden company for some of our first plants 
Westbury Youth Centre garden is open to the public during the week, so feel free to come pick your own veggies with us from time to time <3