Oranjezicht City Farm

Overview

Established in 2012, this well-known 0.25ha community food garden on a heritage site on the slopes of Table Mountain is the most widely recognised project of the SAUFF Trust to date.

OZCF runs a broad range of educational programmes for all ages and interests from workshops to internships, mentoring to hands-on-learning-by-doing with school groups. It is also a site for innovation, developing volunteer programmes, produce box schemes, allotment rentals, household food waste composting, raised bed design and cultivation methods, food forestry, community events and water-wise gardening practices that are shared and utilised at other suitable sites and projects. The OZCF Market was also established as part of the growth of the Oranjezicht City Farm, and since December 2017 has operated as an independent legal entity.

OZCF is recognised as a leading voice in the urban farming movement in South Africa. The lessons learned and insights from establishing OZCF have informed the direction of the SAUFF Trust and given life to the further projects it has undertaken.

Over its first ten years (2012-2022), OZCF achieved the following highlights:

  • Jobs created: 21 Full-time, 12 part-time
  • Jobs supported: 270 employed by market traders
  • Local SMMEs supported: 50 farmers, 90 suppliers
  • Local community food gardens supported: 78
  • Farmers supported: 251
  • Learners and other tours hosted: 7726
  • Volunteers contributing: 887
  • Workshops hosted: 227
  • Interns trained: 45
  • Organic waste composted: 8 900 tonnes
  • Funds raised for urban farming in vulnerable communities: R10.8m
  • Audience reach: 175 000 weekly with 82 600 followers (2022)
  • OZCF Market Day established: April 2013
    • Welcomes 8 000 – 12 000 people per weekend
    • Over 2m visitors as of November 2022
    • Over R100m in economic activity per annum
    • Named top 20 farmer’s market worldwide by The Independent (UK)

In 2023, alongside Greenpop, Earthlife Africa, PETCO and others, the Oranjezicht City Farm was recognised by Treeshake as “one of South Africa’s top environmental organisations.”

Visit the Oranjezicht City Farm website.

Learn more about the OZCF Market.