The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how impoverished people and the working class suffer when food prices rise and jobs disappear, prompting a renewed interest in working the land.
In South Africa, the government-imposed lockdown has resulted in many workers losing their jobs and other sources of income.
They have been converting wasteland to food gardens and sourcing sustainable methods and ways for communities to alternatively source land, seeds and water.
During the lockdown, the group has provided vegetable parcels to women without any income and has started helping young people to acquire land that they can farm.
Its failing food parcel system would, in the long run, be replaced by a sound and sustainable solution to food insecurity in South Africa.
