Green Route Gqeberha/PE

16/09/2025

The disruption is real, but so is climate change, and building climate resilience.

What's going on at Surfer’s Corner?

09/09/2025

Artists invite you into their creative spaces at the first Open Studios Fish Hoek & Clovelly event

04/09/2025

04/09/2025

Our planet gives us so much, but we’re using more than it can provide. By choosing sustainable products, reducing waste, and being mindful of how we consume, we can protect our resources and reverse the harm we’ve caused. Every choice counts! ♻️

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04/09/2025

✨ Join us for a Weekend in the Valley! ✨

📅 Saturday, September 27th
brings you another Thrift Market at — expect amazing pre-loved finds, tasty snacks & drinks, and all the good vibes.

📅 Sunday, September 28thbru is back with the Vegan Market at — enjoy delicious plant-based food & drinks, live music, and beautiful crafts and goods from local makers.

💌 Don’t miss out — save the dates and share with your friends!

SEE YOU THERE!

26/08/2025

I am a huge fan of community projects and non-profits with a social conscience. This week my community spotlight is on Welcome Glen Farmhouse near Glencairn in Cape Town.

Five years ago, Welcome Glen residents applied to restore a National Monument building in their neighbourhood to set up a community centre for residents. A place where people could meet for coffee and a chat, buy some locally-made crafts or browse the secondhand clothing rail. They also wanted a space for co-working and workshops. And they’ve done it.

Welcome Glen Farmhouse opened its doors after five years of restoration work, and it is a very welcoming space.

I took a friend there for coffee and a catch-up. Okay, I also had some delicious baked cheesecake covered in chocolate ganache, topped with raspberries. The coffee was excellent, and the chat was good. We met Conway Lotter, chairperson of the Welcome Glen Community Voluntary Association committee, and I recognised him from Collaborate in Kommetjie Road, Fish Hoek.

On a second visit, I had an open toastie with mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, and pesto. Delicious, and the coffee was excellent, again.

Welcome Glen Farmhouse

Welcome Glen Farmhouse opens doors to neighbours

19/08/2025

The quarterly Friends of Silvermine Nature Area Community Work Party met on May 31. The focus of the 2-hour session was alien clearing in the wetlands, as well as a propagation workshop offered by Fay Howa, from the City of Cape Town’s Recreation and Parks Department.

Fay demonstrated how to propagate plants suitable for the wetland area between Fish Hoek and Clovelly.

Power of community propagation creates plants for wetland area

12/08/2025

Seeking green spaces and eco-friendly places

30/05/2025

I am here to try to make sense of my childhood as a nomad. And because a month ago a friend invited me to a talk called The Art of Memoir. And because I believe in the confluence of events that showed me the Blown Away By Books memoir workshop. I always say it’s not about me and ask other people for their opinions but maybe it is about me.

A memoir isn't necessarily happy

22/05/2025

He is warning you that this is his home … here, as a guardian of the wetlands.

Chip Snaddon's land art piece takes a bold stance

15/05/2025

Join us for a talk on guerilla gardening with fynbos!

Fynbos Corridor Collaboration and Eva van Belle, who is passionate about indigenous plants and fauna, invite you to a talk at Neighbourhood Farm where Van Belle will discuss creating small guerilla gardens in open urban spaces.

Van Belle has a large mountainside fynbos garden in Fish Hoek and she has also created, and now maintains, several small guerilla gardens near her home.

Eva van Belle from Fish Hoek talks guerilla gardening with fynbos and indigenous plants