Neighbourhood Sustainability - Port Elizabeth

[Ryan Allan]

For a few months I have been thinking and discussing ideas on creating self sustainable neighbourhoods in Port Elizabeth, and shortly after sharing these ideas with my mailing list, I was directed to Envirochild site, and was very excited to see the same things I had been thinking so much about, were already well established in Hout Bay.

Here is the website I started up which is dedicated to the creation of self sustainable neighbourhoods and communities. Its still quite simple and was started up initially just to keep the PE group up to date and informed, but the info posted there should be beneficial to any who visit the site.

http://sites.google.com/site/pesustainability/

I've been pushing the idea with the group here to get started on a small garden the size of your average bedroom door [2m x 0.8m], a design of which I have drawn up and posted on the website. Once people are more confident with being in the garden and are willing to offer more space in their yard to food production, they can expand from there and start sharing/exchanging produce with their neighbours.

So just thought I'd share with you whats going on in PE.

[Angie Curtis]

Hey this is GREAT Ryan - thanks for sharing ! I've had a good look through your site and found LOTS of handy info there for my own home garden. I will add your site to ours and hope our neighbourhoods/ suburbs / towns can continue learning from each other. Love your Door Garden section - will be very helpful to many.

[Ryan Allan]

Thanks Angie.

I hope to get a group of interested people together next week to discuss a some sort of plan of action towards neighbourhood sustainability, and will share with them the whole idea of transition initiatives.

Glad you liked the door sized garden idea...I will speak to a friend who runs Jeffery's Bay Urban Harvest Edible Gardens branch for an expert permaculture opinion, haha, then update the design if necessary.