Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Flats Forest

Seeding a youth-led regeneration movement

Cape Flats Forest is an ambitious project with an important educational aspect that will see SUGi collaborate with SEED, a Permaculture Design School located in Mitchell’s Plein, just on the edge of Cape Town.

A SUGi Pocket Forest will complement this green campus, which already features outdoor classrooms, compost toilets, food gardens and seed gardens. Cape Flats Forest creates an opportunity for the school to become a hub for future Miyawaki Forest Makers.

Forest Maker Aghmad Gamieldien

1,200

TREES

300

SQUARE METERS

NATIVE SPECIES

The site of Cape Flats Forest in Cape Town, South Africa

The SUGi pocket forest planted

Forest Report: Planting

DATE: 17.03.2023

Why the Cape Flats Forest?

The forest will be located in the grounds of the school and will bolster their efforts to address high youth unemployment in the local area. SEED offers free permaculture training to inspire and empower youth, helping them in turn to shape thriving and resilient communities. SEED’s programme focuses on abundant food systems, appropriate technologies, social innovation, supporting local entrepreneurship and transformative education.

Our Forest Maker, Aghmad, already has a close partnership with the school. His social enterprise, Mzanzi Organics, offers SEED students a one-month practical internship as part of the broader permaculture programme.