The Kalahari Garden Project Training Program
The Kalahari Garden Project provides training for the San people living in Corridor in the following areas:
- Vegetable gardening in the Kalahari
- Team building and leadership training
- Community-based management of water delivery systems
- Nutrition - the value of vegetables for specific health complaints and HIV related infections
- Ethnobotany - recording information about their knowledge of wild food plants
In collaboration with Komeho Namibia and the Eden Project, we conduct training workshops on how to grow fruit and vegetables in homegardens. These workshops include training in how to build a cattle-proof garden, management of drip irrigation systems, sowing and transplanting, pest management, response to climatic variation, harvesting, storing, preparing and marketing of vegetables.
Team building, leadership training and community management of water is an ongoing process facilitated by the project director and Komeho Namibia. This includes the training of garden representatives from each village in project management, garden supervision and troubleshooting, and facilitation of community water point meetings.The project currently has four San garden representatives who form a garden committee.
Ethnobotanical and nutritional training will be conducted in the second year of the project (2008-2009) and will include plant collection, the setting up of an indigenous vegetation garden, participatory documentation of local plant knowledge and nutritional workshops.
