Oranjezicht City Farm

Food Culture Community

  • About
    • Visiting the Farm
    • History
    • Helping Other Farms
    • Governance
    • Contact
  • Education
    • Workshops
    • Food Dialogues
    • Wiki
  • Friends of the Farm
  • Shop
  • Allotments
  • The OZCF Market
    • Trader Application Form
  • Get Involved
    • Volunteer
    • Bokashi Brigade
    • Donate
You are here: Home / Archives for Knowledge Base / History
post

A Peak into the Past: historical trends of growing your own food

July 17, 2013 By Kurt Ackermann

Warning: Undefined variable $attachment in /usr/www/users/ozcfcbvcgt/wp-content/plugins/auto-excerpt-everywhere/auto-excerpt-everywhere.php on line 124 Warning: Attempt to read property "post_excerpt" on null in /usr/www/users/ozcfcbvcgt/wp-content/plugins/auto-excerpt-everywhere/auto-excerpt-everywhere.php on line 124 Warning: Undefined variable $attachment in /usr/www/users/ozcfcbvcgt/wp-content/plugins/auto-excerpt-everywhere/auto-excerpt-everywhere.php on line 125 Warning: Attempt to read property "post_title" on null in /usr/www/users/ozcfcbvcgt/wp-content/plugins/auto-excerpt-everywhere/auto-excerpt-everywhere.php on line 125 Most of my friends wouldn’t know where to begin if told to grow their own food. I of course have my horticulture comrades…but those engineers; oceanographers; teachers -- they’re great at their professions and have wonderful skill sets -- growing just isn’t one of them! This is not an isolated example. For generations there have been those with green thumbs and those, well -- without. Growing your own food and gardening has gone in and out of fashion throughout history. Gardens have Read more [...]

Filed Under: Food, History, How to Farm, Urban Farm Tagged With: experimenting, food producing gardens, growing your own food, history of gardening, trying something new, urban farming, vegetables, victory gardens, WW2

post

Unearthing the Path to the Past

May 22, 2013 By Simon Barnett

Warning: Undefined variable $attachment in /usr/www/users/ozcfcbvcgt/wp-content/plugins/auto-excerpt-everywhere/auto-excerpt-everywhere.php on line 124 Warning: Attempt to read property "post_excerpt" on null in /usr/www/users/ozcfcbvcgt/wp-content/plugins/auto-excerpt-everywhere/auto-excerpt-everywhere.php on line 124 Warning: Undefined variable $attachment in /usr/www/users/ozcfcbvcgt/wp-content/plugins/auto-excerpt-everywhere/auto-excerpt-everywhere.php on line 125 Warning: Attempt to read property "post_title" on null in /usr/www/users/ozcfcbvcgt/wp-content/plugins/auto-excerpt-everywhere/auto-excerpt-everywhere.php on line 125 Historical information needed to unearth a path to the past. One of the farm’s volunteers and education program coordinators, Lizza Littlewort, is focussing her Masters degree dissertation on the history of the farm. She would be grateful for any references, memories or even urban myths about the farm, throughout its three hundred year history, which could help in the reconstruction of an idea of what life on the farm may have been like in past eras. This would include not only the traditional Read more [...]

Filed Under: Community Initiatives, History, Knowledge Base, Progress Updates Tagged With: historical, history, Homestead, Homestead Park, information, memories, myths, path, slavery, van Breda

Hosting Sponsor:

~• an iSimon Website •~ © 2023 Oranjezicht City Farm