PLETTENBERG BAY NEWS - The Kurland community along with the Nature’s Valley Trust has been greening the outskirts of Plettenberg Bay one tree at a time for the past seven years.
On July 27, the trust and the Tsitsi-tuiniers gardening club hosted their annual Kurland Greening event, which involves the planting of indigenous trees in and around the Kurland area.
“Initiated way back in 2003 by the NVT and Willing Workers in South Africa (WWISA), the greening event has grown in strength,” said NVT director Dr Mark Brown.
In 2011 the project became a multi-stakeholder event and was driven by the community under the official banner of Kurland Greening. So far more than 1 200 trees have been planted.
“From this the initiative the Tsitsi-tuiniers was born, which is also a community-driven organisation.”
On July 27 at about 09:00 the Kurland community hall was packed with community members and stakeholders, ready to plant trees. After a warm welcome from Brown and a word of encouragement from Bitou municipality waste management representative Douglas Baartman, the community set off planting.
“With shovels, spades and wheelbarrows in hand the community and stakeholder teams made quick work of the task at hand. Not only did we plant 30 indigenous trees, but important maintenance was done on previously planted trees.”
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The Kurland community and various stakeholders planted more than 30 trees on July 27, as part of an ongoing greening project.
Brown thanked everyone for their contribution towards the success of the day, including Tsitsi-tuiniers, the Orca Foundation, the Bitou municipality, SANParks, Milton Farm, Born in Africa, WWISA, Brackenburn CREW, the Table Mountain Fund, Working on Fire and the Bitou fire department.
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