The PEDI AgriHub's mission is to connect emerging farmers to markets and provide the resources and training they need to get there. Supporting PEDI is a great way to support micro and small-scale farmers across the Cape Flats and further afield. Zodidi sends out a weekly availability list via email so get in touch to be added to the mailing list.

Person: Zodidi Meke

Agrihub Procurement Manager

Tel : +27 21 371 9824

Cell : +27 78 431 5949

Email : zmeke@pedi.org.za

Locally ABALOBI works with fishing communities along the West Coast, South Coast, and in the Cape Metro.

Fish With A Story is fully traceable, premium quality, local seafood harvested responsibly by small-scale fishermen and -women using low-impact fishing methods. This seafood is supplied directly to consumers via a fair and transparent digital marketplace and traceability technology powered by ABALOBI.

By supporting Fish With A Story consumers contribute to the empowerment of coastal communities and participate in an ever-growing movement to rethink and develop a more sustainable and ethical food system.

Want to know your produce is truly Organic? PGS SA is supporting a national network of small-scale farms through the formation of PGS groups. Click the button to find your closest group which can connect you to local organic certified farms in your area!

Participatory Guarantee Systems are locally focused assurance systems composed of local farmers, retailers, and community members who annually peer review each farm for organic alignment and certification collectively enabling market access for smallholder organic farmers. They serve as an accessible alternative and complementary quality assurance systems to third-party certification.

The Moya we Khaya community garden is based in Khayelitsha and has 11 members, the majority of whom are women. Their name means "Spirit of Home" and they truly encompass that - the beautiful farm and their passion for the soil represents family- and community-centred values. For the future they dream to build a packshed and community centre, where they can pack and process vegetables for local and city-based markets and run training sessions for aspiring young farmers. They have a huge variety of vegetables looking for homes now. Masses of asian greens (pak choi and tsat soi, lettuces, sweet potatoes, potatoes, a variety of radishes, golden beets, sugar snap peas, table celery, fennel, red and green cabbages, carrots, turnips and kale. In July they'll be adding broccoli, cauliflower, and broad beans to their lists. They can do bunching or bulk and they can deliver.

Person: Xoliswa Magutywa

Email: moyawekhaya@gmail.com / xoliswaeugenia@gmail.com

Mobile / WhatsApp: 072 368 0053

Stanley and his wife Siphokazi run Green Path inspired by his green fingered parents, Veronica and Matanzima who run the Bhukula Farming Co-op. They started out running a vegetable stand at the Milnerton Market and as their farms grew they joined the Umthunzi network. Quality and integrity are the two words that stand out to Umthunzi about this incredible family and these guys are some of the best greens, chillies and herb growers out there. They practice regenerative farming which incorporates animals and intercropping to their soil. Their mint, New Zealand spinach and lemon thyme are unparalleled. Right now they have shallots, apple and spearmint, kale, New Zealand spinach, pale moon brinjals, sweet potatoes, chinese cabbages, carrots, and most especially lots of CHILLIES - serrano, birdseye and jalapeno - if you know of someone who needs lots of good quality chilies, please do be in touch!

Person: Stanley Bhukula / Veronica Bhukula

Email: greenpathssm@gmail.com / bhukulafarmingproject@gmail.com

Mobile / WhatsApp: 067 660 2579 / 072 254 8202

Mhani Gingi is a non-profit organisation that supports and sustains community-led social entrepreneurship programs that are sustainable, profitable and contribute to alleviating poverty in South Africa. Their flagship programme focuses on urban agriculture following permaculture practices. They run a seedling nursery and support community market gardening projects. These projects work closely with the marginalised - domestic abuse survivors, the disabled and those in prisons to learn to farm, feed their families and sell their products and at present support around 10 of these farms. It's an incredible programme and their founder, Lilian and their operations manager Tabisa, will love to tell you much more about it! They have fantastic peppers, tomatoes, brinjals, pumpkins, butternuts, sweet potatoes, marrows and other items available most of the year round thanks to their skills and temperature regulated tunnels.

Person: Tabisa Mahlathi

Email: mahlathitabisa@gmail.com

Mobile / WhatsApp: 078 466 9303

Samuel Hlekiso is the man behind Green Leaf Agri Enterprises and is an honest, reputable and reliable farmer to source from. His farm, Leliefontein is based just outside of Malmesbury. He is super proud and deserving of his PGS organic certification and is actively growing his own knowledge and skills to farm bigger and better. He also farms using multicropping, organic and regenerative principles and keeps chickens for eggs (his eggs are delicious and as free range as they come!) He grows AMAZING spinach and beetroots, seriously top class and he won't let you down! At the moment he has a few varieties of kale (including cavolo nero), spring onion and a variety of chard. Come late June and July he will be ready to harvest fields of cauliflower, broccoli, parsnips, potatoes, table celery, peas and kohlrabi, amongst others. He's working on building a tunnel and shaded area, as well as setting up a hydroponics system!

Person: Samuel Hlekiso

Email : pigbigtime@gmail.com

Mobile / WhatsApp: 078 314 9893

The wonderful Sameena runs the family business of Valota Farm. They just recently got certified through the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS SA) for their organic status and also have a section of the farm growing conventional crops. They're based on the extensive Phillipi Horticultural Area and in addition to selling their own crops they also support many of their neighbouring farms who struggle with market access. They offer beautiful fresh veggie boxes as well as wholesale offerings. If you're interested to be added their email list to receive their weekly availability, please be in touch with Sameena. At the moment they have lots of lettuces, baby leaf packs, baby leeks and beets, edible flowers, peashoot trays, microgreens, and radishes - a great option for creative chefs!

Person: Sameena Kariel

Email: sameena@valota.co.za

Mobile / WhatsApp: 072 504 8519

Abitzfarming is based in Abbotsdale and surrounds. The small team started out during lockdown, experimenting with farming techniques and offering training to other interested small-scale farmers. They love trying out new processes and are currently using aquaponics to grow some of their high quality crops. They run a social business using income from their farm to fund continuous training programmes in their community and they also help many other small-scale farmers to access sustainable markets through them. They have a bakkie to deliver products to Cape Town. They grow potatoes, sweet potatoes, garlic, ginger, onions, tomatoes, gem squash, green beans, peppers etc at incredible quality and are also a great project to support. They also recently received their PGS organic certification!

Person: Angelo Marmen

Email: abitzfarming@gmail.com

Mobile / Whatsapp : 073 617 3094

One of FoodFlow’s partners from launch. Muriwo Organics is run by Brandon and his wife Hilda based in Stellenbosch. They grow for several local high-end restaurants as well as providing produce for informal vendors in surrounding communities. They can do bunching or bulk orders and are an absolute pleasure to work with. You can read more about their farm, including a video interview with Brandon, in our feature in Nature Journal.

Person: Brandon Mubaiwa

Mobile / WhatsApp: 061 686 1603

Love in a Bowl offers several sizes of Harvest Bags. Order for your own home or sponsor a community pot! Free delivery (or collection) to Hout Bay & Llandudno. R30 delivery for CBD, Southern Suburbs & Atlantic seaboard.

One of FoodFlow’s first partners, previously known as Gracie Love in a Bowl, has been completely transformed by their response to Covid. Having grown veggies in Hout Bay for job creation and community feeding schemes for many years their work has now greatly scaled up into a community business.

Just before the initial lockdown in 2020 FoodFlow reached out to Love in a Bowl to provide harvest bags to our original community parters, iKhaya le Themba and Sakhisizwe. As lockdown set in this partnership flourished providing over 193k rands of vegetables into the Hout Bay Bay communities of Imizamo Yethu and Hangberg, as well as further afield. Love in a Bowl has now supported iKhaya le Themba to grow their own veggies!

Person: Gordon Aeschliman

Email: hello@loveinabowl.co.za

Mobile / WhatsApp: 068 528 8318