From food waste to compost

Ladles of Love is ready to collect your household food waste at the Constantia Old Village.

The Feed the Soil programme aims to keep household food waste out of landfills and turn it into compost to help farmers grow and sell better produce.

“Using the Feed the Soil food waste starter kit, you actively form part of our community farming ecosystem – from paying forward your food waste to turning it into nutritious compost and buying back the fresh produce grown from it,” the charity’s website says.

Ladles of Love chairperson Yolanda Jones said the programme would also provide urban farmers a route to market by purchasing all their veg and selling it at pop-up stands.

“We encourage you to join this movement. It is more than just diverting food waste away from landfills, but it is also about providing food security to so many households.”

The Ladles of Love pop-up stand at Constantia Old Village is selling a starter kit at R200, which includes a 5-litre bucket to keep in the kitchen and a 25-litre one to be kept with the refuse bins.

Once full, the 25-litre bucket can be returned to the pop-up stand for waste collection and replaced with a new one for a fee of R25.

The pop-up stand is at Constantia Old Village from 8.30am to 12.30pm on Tuesdays. There are also stands at I Love Coffee in Claremont, Sunset Beach in Sea Point, Vredehoek and the V&A Makers Landing.