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The community of Petrusfontein in the Kunene region is asking the government for funding to start a community garden.<\/em><\/p>\n The garden will be used to grow vegetables such as tomatoes, spinach and cabbage.<\/p>\n Speaking on behalf of the community, Hendrete Swartbooi says they have previously grown maize successfully.<\/p>\n “We want to start a garden and do something for ourselves, because things are expensive at the shops,” she says.<\/p>\n Swartbooi says the nearest shops are over 30km from Petrusfontein.<\/p>\n The…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The community of Petrusfontein in the Kunene region is asking the government for funding to start a community garden. The garden will be used to grow vegetables such as tomatoes, spinach and cabbage. Speaking on behalf of the community, Hendrete Swartbooi says they have previously grown maize successfully. “We want to start a garden and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7065,7963,6602,4357,4706,724,257,53624,254,7138],"class_list":["post-223403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asks","tag-community","tag-garden","tag-govt","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-petrusfontein","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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