South Africa: Zim city’s suburban community gardens drive urban farming
Mkhululi Tjibenda and 49 other residents of Entumbane, a suburb of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, are engaged in urban farming on an approximately 1ha garden allocated to them by the local city council.
By Clemence Manyukwe
Farmers Weekly
6 January 2026
Excerpt:
Simunye Garden is one of many community gardens dotted around the city after the Bulawayo City Council set aside land for such projects.
“I started in 2016; the push was the love for farming and the need to get nutritious food. It’s best to grow your own food, as you determine what you eat and its [quality]. You can avoid the heavy use of pesticides by commercial farmers,” Tjibenda explained.
“You also save money. I haven’t bought vegetables since I started farming.”
Tjibenda explained that community garden members do not pay to use the land. He added that each of the 50 members has about 12 beds. Irrigation water comes from a borehole that was drilled by the council, and local MP Prince Dube equipped it with a solar power system through the Constituency Development Fund.
Gardeners pool resources
Each member contributed US$10 (about R73) to upgrade the solar power system.
“Each person tends to their own beds, but we come together for work that requires everyone, such as fixing fences. When we started, we used two wells that hardly dried up. Then we installed a hand-pump borehole, and recently we solarised the boreholes to make watering easier,” Tjibenda added.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/south-africa-zim-citys-suburban-community-gardens-drive-urban-farming/
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