Igniting social change
Making the Connection presents the benefits of a plant based diet in a contemporary and upbeat style, showing that you can lead a healthy, fun, modern lifestyle that is fair, sustainable, compassionate. Episode 1 explores the delights of gourmet vegan food. The other 7 chapters are all here too – they explore issues of fitness, nutrition, global food security, environment, ethics and farming. Click Read more to watch them.
“The bread is in the soil, the food is in the soil. The soil is a diamond” says Christina Kaba, Abalimi’s Field Operations Manager. Kaba has dedicated the past 21 years of her life to empowering the people of the Cape Flats to provide for themselves. Her simple love for all things green and living has inspired the creation of lush green pockets of land scattered amongst a sprawling collection of houses and shacks on the Cape Flats. Today nearly 3000 Cape Flats families benefit directly from this innovative organic vegetable farming project Abalimi Bezekhaya.
Gaye van Hasselt is an organic farmer in Prince Albert in the Karoo, who feels strongly that pure, clean water is essential for our survival, and that fracking is not an option.
With a deep connection to the land she feels has enriched her life, and an appreciation for our vital natural ecosystems, Gaye feels that there needs to be another way to fuel our energy needs.