A community on the outskirts of Worcester will soon be able to harvest, eat and sell their very own vegetables from their very own garden. But this is no ordinary garden… it is a garden with a FoodTent in it.

Pinocchio Creche in Green Point launched one of the Atlantic Seaboard's very first low-cost greenhouses on Friday

Food Tents are proving to be extremely popular as a solution to the lack of food security in South Africa. In the first semester our team erected 18 food tents at various schools, hospitals and NGO’s around the country with a direct social impact of 1440 people and indirect impact of 5760 people.

Peter Shrimpton, CEO of Heart, is interviewed at the World Economic Forum on Africa at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on 18-19 June 2009. In this video he introduces one of his favourite social enterprises, Food Tents.

Te midde van ekonomiese druk het die Sarah Fox-hersteloord vir kinder in Athlone gister sy eerste kweekhuis vir die verbouing van groente gekry.

Tents have much more to do than just offer shelter in poor communities, where a joint effort is teaching people the "joy of growing". These tents are "FoodTents", and with the help of sponsor Pam Golding Properties, eight will be erected at local community-based, non-profit organisations to help teach people to help themselves...

Food Tents makes Alpha Schools Greener.

The year started with a bang as our flagship FoodTent enterprise erected five food tents at previously disadvantaged schools in the Western Cape.

"Mama Rosey" Makosa is a pillar in the Philippi community and, at 58 years old, she would be "The Department of Social Services", if Philippi had one. From her corrugated shack in the impoverished informal settlement, she empowers the local unemployed women of all ages in skills that can earn them income (sewing, bead work and knitting) as her contribution to lowering crime. After the training she searches for companies that will employ these women as quickly as possible.

On 23 August 2008 more than 200 volunteers descended on Turffontein Primary in Johannesburg South to assist with the building of three FoodTents.