Apart from the GMO nightmare, our food has been purposely scientifically engineered to make us addicted to salt, sugar and fat.  You are powerless to stop eating whilst getting zero nutrition and being poisoned.  Result : obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, food allergies, depression, high cholesterol, to name but a few.  Why do you ask?  All for money.... If we are ever to regain our health and ensure food security for "expendable masses" (that's you and me), we need to start planting our own food.  We need to ask questions about where our food is coming from and what's in it.  Would you knowingly poison your children and yourself?  Would you still feed your kids those sad meals if you knew they were guaranteed to give them cancer by eating them?  What about baby food?  Do you know it's full of GMO's?  Time to wake up to what's being done to us. Making the change to organic, local food is a process, but a vital necessity if you ever want to escape the cycle of lifelong bad food / lifelong bad health / lifelong weak mind.  Why not read this interesting article on food choices and spirituality?
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Become Self-Sustaining
On Your Marks .... Get Set .... Let's Grow!!

Soil

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The most important part of any eco-friendly gardening is the soil.  Get that right and half the battle is won.  Earthworms are an integral part of good soil management, so you have to learn about that too.  

Vegetables

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Do you know how many chemicals get sprayed on our fruit and veg?  It's time to grow organic.  Plant the one you like the most as a start.  Don't forget Planting Season.

Herbs

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Apart from the health benefits they turn salads, butters and dressings into master pieces.  Rosemary, thyme, basil, sage, mint and oregano are easy to grow staples.  

Pest and Weed Control

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You don't have to resort to chemicals in a garden. Vinegar will kill weeds in a driveway. Just keep it off your 'good' plants cos it can kill them too.  Beer can be used to catch snails.  

Johannesburg  and Surrounds 

Aloe Dale organic produce for restaurants, chefs and caterers
Bamboo Rooftop Farmers Market In Melville, opens Saturdays 9am - 1pm
Bryanston Organic Market Behind The Campus in Bryanston, open Thursdays and Saturdays from 9am - 3pm
Farmers Markets List of all markets in Jhb
Farmer John's Market Boskruin, every Saturday
Fresh Earth Parktown-ish?
Free Food (Arial)  It's not actually free, it's just the name, vegan homemade deliciousness, Corlette Drive
Fruits and Roots Bryanston
Fourways Farmers Market Inside Long Market next to Monte Casino
Leafy Greens Restaurant with own grown organic food down Beyers Naude Drive in Jhb
Live Macro Whole food wellness centre in Jhb
Joburg Green Map
Margaret Roberts The authority on herbs, her shop is at Hartbeesport Dam
Natures Choice
Organic Blog One mother's journey to get us to understand what real food is
Organic Emporium Order online and have them delivered to you, shop just opened in Bryanston Shopping Centre
Raw Works Teaching you how to change your lifestyle and embrace raw foods, Northcliff
Red Avo Raw food specialist and working with autestic children
Slow Food Jozi
Talborne Organics Local crowd recognised worldwide for their organic products
The Lighthouse on 7th Melville
The Munching Mongoose Another organic, home delivery system
Timothy & Clover Local crowd delivers organic products to Jhb surrounds
Ukuvuna Urban Farming Teaching sustainable, permaculture farming practices in Midrand, solar energy and providing GM free seeds
Whole Earth Recycling 

Pretoria and Surrounds

Terra Madre SA Centurion, organic food deliveries, permaculture courses
Magalies Slow Food Ok technically not Pretoria, more like Northwest Province :)

Durban

The Harvest Market Home delivery of organic food and natural products 

Cape Town and Surrounds

Blue Sky Organics Organic olive farm
Earthshine Got a great recipe book and courses
Eat Ur Greens Started by Karin Liebenburg in Cape Town in her pursuit for healthier living
Easy Living Food Great recipe book and blog
Eco Hub One of the cheaper suppliers for all the toys you'll need to go natural / raw
Eureka Mills You can buy their flour at Bryanston Organic Market in Joburg too
Green Times Online newspaper for all things green
Health Makers Equipment, recipes, lots of stuff
Home for Health Wheatgrass supplier
Pasture Reared Food meat, eggs, vegetables and vines from Angus McIntosh
Rawlicious Recipe book, supplies, courses
The Drift Organic wine farm
Wild Organics Delivery of organic produce
Cpt Organic Map

Wakkerstroom

More South African Links

Global 

Do you Know Where Your Food Comes From?

No-one is exempt from this, because companies like Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow, Del Monte have infiltrated many countries around the world, and very largely in South Africa.  Watch and learn how they engineer our food and how they treat the staff that work for them, the animals the "process" and the environment they destroy.