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Grassy Park Community: Food Garden grant – Checkout this vegetable garden of Mrs Jordaan of Lotus River. Mrs. Jordaan was one of the initial Household Food Garden grant – recipients, offered by Western Cape Gov. Dept.of Agriculture – December 2020Community Senior & Pensioner – Mrs. Jordaan and her grandson Robin has created a little thriving Food Garden in the back yard. Mrs. Jordaan has been watering her garden from home grey water and has just received a blessing of 2 x 1000 litre containers to begin storing and harvesting grey & rainwater for her garden. Here you will notice Cabbage, Spring Onion, Tomatoe, Chilli, Carrots, Sweet Potato, Brinjal and other varietals in her garden. You will notice a little bare patch which she has cleared to make way for the donation of Sweet Potatoe runners she received from a neighbour. Mrs Jordaan says she is in Love with her little Food Garden and spends as much time as she can tending to it “ek kannie genoeg kry nie..ek loep`ie eers meer soe much Winkel toe nie” Next round of Household & Community Food Garden grants 2021 begins in the next month or 2. Whatsapp 079 974 4220 for more information and to secure an application form to begin the process. (T,s & C,s Apply / above number whatsapp only – no calls)in Community Spirit grassy park, cape town, south africa

Grassy Park Community: Endangered Species – almost extinct in your Community. Have you heard of the Barber`s Cape Flats Ranger Butterfly (Kedestes). It only occurs in one, very small, location in the world which happens to be around the corner in the False Bay Nature Reserve and surrounds. There are only 50 known Butterflies in existence in this space and Nature Conservationists & Rangers have been hard at work since 2017 trying to re-introduce Barber`s Cape Flats Ranger Butterfly into the spaces it historically occured – in our local environment and communities – lost due to the rapid urbanisation of our local communities . A captive rearing and breeding program the Kedestes Butterfly Conservation Project is underway to boost its numbers Get out there – appreciate our local natural environment deeply, tread lightly in Community Spirit grassy park, cape town, south africa

Grassy Park Community: End of the Heritage Shop Era and how does this reflect Community SpiritMr. Jeetesh Nathoo and the Heritage Shop Legacy he held in Grassy Park brings to a close the chapter of the ‘Lekkers Vannie Change’ era which began at this old shop by the Quetin Family who originally owned it. This shop has passed hands – and new owners have already moved in and ‘diversified’ the store – November 2020.Local families – as customers remember buying goods on the ‘bookie’, products delivered by bicycle and the shop owners knowing the entire family unit by name. Jeetesh finds himself dolely at the end of a 41 year Legacy and Community Heritage which began with his father after the Quetin Families decades-long stint in this shop which began in the 1940`s. Here local kids remember drooling over the latest Spin Tops, Yo-Yo’s and BMX accessories besides the ‘Naame Lekkers’, ‘Sagte Wilson Bloks’ and ‘Granid`ella Sukkas’ among many other treats and novelties which enthralled us. The story of this shop and other local spaces like it reminds us of our sense of community and rootednessThese original, period specific, heritage shops are the last vestiges of our bygone Slow Living customs and traditions which underpinned our local Community Spirit. ‘Nathoos Shop’ being one of the remaining very few. Gone too soonWe wish Jeetesh and his family Good Speed on their future endeavors and Thank You for holding heritage spacegrassy park, cape town, south africa

Grassy Park Community: Local Youth Culture & Customs – Nobody can ‘Kap ‘n Dite’ like hungry, high school lads especially like these Chommas during a marathon research project at the Library -directly after school

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Grassy Park Community: Local Heritage – our local landscape , once – and to a degree- still an ultra-abundant natural environment was a natural attraction and home for our Indigenous Peoples who found our vast grazing pastures, rich foraging heathfields, abundant trout fishing wetlands, rich large & small game hunting grounds, kaleidoscope of birdlife, pristine rivers & watercourses, proximity to the ocean & mountain, among other, within a 30 minute walk of all local facets – a natural paradise where Kinship & Stewardship borne from abundance was the cultural imprint.

Does a Communities dis-connection from its heritage & local environment affect its connection to itself and how does that affect Community Spirit

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