Xolisa Bangani is the founder of a community project called Ikhaya Garden. The project was founded in 2013 in order to encourage young people to enjoy the adventure of gardening with a motto of making gardening cool.
Ikhaya Garden
Talks covered by this speaker
Urban agriculture and the food commons
Food and Culture Panel Discussion
Themes covered by Xolisa
About this Speaker
Xolisa considers himself a soil artist using the soil as the canvas and plants as paint to create a beautiful image of his community. He grew in Site C, a community in Khayelitsha. He sees lack of opportunities and access to resources and information with regards to food and environmental practices as a major social ill we faced with. In 2013 Xolisa founded a community project called Ikhaya Garden to encourage young people to enjoy the adventure of gardening with a motto of making gardening cool.