• Build the soil, grow the plants, feed the people, heal the planet
  • Buying products from our shop feeds directly back into the community work we do
  • Growing food, growing people, growing communities
  • Organic home garden courses every month
  • Anything is possible, even growing food in small spaces

Who we are

We are a Cape Town-based NGO, continuously teaching people how to build the soil and grow healthy plants so that families can sit down to plates of safe, fresh nutritious food, all year round.

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What we do...

We run 12-week training cycles covering a variety of topics which include, but are not limited to, soil preparation, natural fertilisers, re-cycling, what/when to plant, planning crops, organic pest control and harvesting.

Gifts to give

The cycle of giving is benefits both the giver and the receiver! There are so many ways that you could contribute to growing food secure communities,

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Featured Community Story

Gugu and the Misters

May 07, 2013
by Soil For Life
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“Ah, Mr Dlamini! Welcome!!” bellows Mr Munye as Mr. Dlamini eases into the group. This is a fourth follow-up visit that Soil for Life fieldworker Gugu is paying her elderly group in Khayelitsha. Her group consists of mainly men from the community who are members of an old-age care centre in the township. Growing food for themselves has brought them a clear sense of pride and there is no hiding their joy. Their enthusiasm is tangible. They are energetic and excited about their food gardening project. (more…)


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Stables Lane, off Brounger Road
Constantia, 7800.

Phone/Fax: 021 794 4982.

Soil For Life is a registered Non Profit Organisation (028-256 NPO) and Section 21 Company (2002/020596/08).

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