Lockdown validated 10 years of PHA Food & Farming Campaign work
By Opinion
by Nazeer A Sonday
The year 2020 will be remembered for the coronavirus pandemic and a lockdown that closed down the city.
Just two years before, 2018 will go down in our memory for dry taps and Day Zero. Throughout both crises, the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA) foodlands proved to be worth their weight in gold as an essential part of the city’s well-being.
Foodlands is a word born out of the struggle to protect the PHA. It means: “Urban/peri-urban farmlands and farming communities growing horticultural crops of high nutritional, medicinal, and ecosystem value, with short supply chain from the plaas to the plate.”