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Durban Rooftop Garden is a private inner-city urban regeneration project that aims to transform the city centre. The garden is a city farm that produces fresh produce, which gets sold to local restaurants and food markets and donated to charities. During a visit to the garden, Wendy tells guests how only recycled items are used in the garden, and explains how crop-monitoring and rotation is done to keep soil healthy.
A recessed entrance alongside the Urban Management Zone offices guides guests to this transformed building rooftop, which is now a showroom and proof that food can be grown without space and nature can thrive in the city. In the garden plants are grown from old shoes, buckets, handbags and up walls in old plastic bottles. Old bus shelters provide seating so visitors can sit and enjoy the natural view. The garden is watered using water from rainwater tanks that is collected from the building's runoff.
Wendy Taylor and Sylvia Burger are the green thumbs behind the project.
