Lavender garden brings hope to Hangberg

27 Jul 2013

On 25 July 2013 volunteers began planting a lavender garden in Hangberg as part of the Bay Harbour Market community project, in association with Lavender in Lavender Hill, an organisation that works towards improving communal surroundings and instilling community pride. From 25-27 July, from 10am-4pm on Harbour Road (opposite the market), volunteers helped to plant 100 lavender bushes.

The Lavender in Lavender Hill project is a social enterprise that aims to plant 1000,000 Lavender plants in Lavender Hill, a struggling community in Cape Town, South Africa. The vision is to populate Lavender Hill with Lavender and in so doing create an urban farm for the production of lavender products.

An inspiring project vision

According to the project team, the Lavender in Lavender Hill project vision is this: "Imagine a community, a backdrop lush with colour, luxuriously perfumed with fields of sweet lavender. The beauty of the lavender fields will instil pride in the community and will become a tourist attraction, giving exposure to a community once avoided. This will over time reduce the crime, violence, gangsterism, drug use and attitude of no hope."

The Bay Harbour Market brought this project to Hangberg and, with the help of donations from visitors to the market in their "change for change" drive, is funding the creation of the lavender garden in the community. Lavender in Lavender Hill products will be available for sale alongside the new garden.

For more information, go to www.lavenderinlavenderhill.co.za.