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In 2012, some volunteers decided to take a neglected square of land, a sterile bowling green on the edge of the Cape Town inner city, and turn it into an urban food garden. Today the Oranjezicht City Farm is a 2 500m^2 piece of publicly owned land in the suburb of Oranjezicht that has become a project about people, community and working together to champion urban farming and better access to healthy food. Food growing just became a way to realise a wider vision, this small educational non-profit project has hosted thousands of school children, and through its weekly farmer's market supports numerous small, local farms, dozens of artisanal food purveyors and the hundreds of jobs they provide. Oranjezicht City Farm tries to capture some of the stories about how this farm, and all the blossoming activities around it, came to be. It's a record of what drives the spirit of volunteerism and how we bring about change for the better in our communities. Filled with gorgeous images from across the seasons, it also contains recipes that reflect the community spirit of the farm, and points toward the future of food and farming in Cape Town. It's about the resources needed to make it happen. It's about the personalities who drive it. It's about the frustrations and victories and hurdles and successes that come with any project of this nature.

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Leonie Joubert is a science writer and author of four books, who has her eye on issues of climate, energy, environmental change, and hunger in the world of Big Food. She's preoccupied with finding harmonious ways of living together on a tightly packed planet, and with how to give voice to the silenced environment. A born and bred Capetonian, Sheryl Ozinsky was the Manager of Cape Town Tourism but never took a holiday. A true local, she swears like a Bergie and thinks the South Easter a mere breeze. Sheryl is passionate about the choices that support a more just and resilient food system and is one of the founders of the Oranjezicht City Farm and Market Day. Kurt Ackermann has been navigating the blurred boundaries between organisations and individuals, private profits and public benefits, doing good and doing well, for two decades. He is also a writer and storyteller in print, film and other media. American born, he has called Cape Town home since 2000. He is one of the founders of the Oranjezicht City Farm.

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