About Soweto Urban farming
This is the activity or business for growing crops or animals for food or generating income. Soweto urban farming also is the way of creating and developing job opportunities, teaching youth about the important of farming. When our lecture introduce this chapter(Food security) we were confuse because I did not see the important of those learning since I am not an Agricultural student, but things started changes when meeting Miss Maserane our farmer.
Working with farmers
Working with Miss Maserane changes the way I did feel when Mrs Benecke introduce this chapter to us, working with her was becoming more interesting every time meeting her and having conversations. Spending time with her made me realize that there are so many opportunities out there and if you are a person you need to like your job and have passion as she does. She is an intelligent women, she love her job and she cannot see herself doing other jobs. Miss Maserame's doing her farming in one of the school at next to Tladi clinic. She started her farming years ago and helped other people from her community to do what she's doing and the youth, but she mentioned that the youth didn't support things like this, even her children.
In many ways farmers they sometimes use different fertilizers to grow their crops. Farmers use a lot of chemical fertilizers, pesticides (chemicals that kill bugs), and herbicides (chemicals that kill weeds) simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farming. Working with my farmer was so interesting I was gaining more things every time when seeing her. She inspired me like the way she doing thing things. She create her own fertilizer to make her crops grow not wasting money with unnecessary things, she only use money buying crops. We also spend more time with her sharing knowledge and also help her with selling her peri-peri at Lens. She was so grateful for that and people did like her product and wanted more. Others gave us their numbers so that they will be in touch with our farmer.
Engagement in social networks
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Nowadays people use social networks which is popular to be updated with early and latest news. Social media also make is easier for everyone to get every information and it save money. Our journey to lens was great because we also find people who owns catering business which are willing to work with our farmer, only to find that this days we use technology, so we came up with the idea of creating Facebook page and the blog to involve our farmer on getting clients so that her business will be successful on doing that I did realize that social media is very important. Alma Maxwell, owner of Outsourced Communication who deals with social media needs for companies, mentioned that students need to ensure that they use social media to their advantage, adding that having their profiles on LinkedIn ensures that they are visible that are looking for potential employees.
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