Feed The Soil

Your household food waste is an Urban Farmers’ dream!

PURCHASE YOUR FEED THE SOIL STARTER KIT HERE

What is the Feed the Soil programme and how does it work?

The Feed The Soil programme is an initiative aimed at saving household food waste from landfill while helping farmers grow and sell better produce. The programme aims to create healthy compost from your kitchen food waste. Using the Feed The Soil Food Waste 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.

Join today to help fix the food waste/supply chain and help grow our network of sustainable farming organisations to produce nutritious organic vegetables.

The process is simple.

Sign up to the programme using the form below
Purchase your Feed the Soil Food Waste Kit from our online store here
Start collecting your food waste at home (food scraps and off cuts) using your kit
When your food waste storage bin is full, meet the Feed The Soil team at one of our weekly meeting spots to drop off your full bucket and swap it for a clean, empty one (R25 cost per bucket swap – Card or Snapscan accepted)
Purchase fresh weekly organic vegetables from our weekly meeting spots.

At our weekly meeting spots, swapping your food waste bucket is quick and easy, with a few extras available. You can add a bag of sawdust or bokashi to your swap for R24 each, helping you manage your waste more effectively at home. Sawdust helps absorb moisture and reduce odours, while bokashi introduces beneficial microbes that speed up the composting process and minimise smells.

We also offer a selection of natural, locally produced goods, including raw honey (R120) in macadamia, fynbos, and wildflower varieties. Please note that availability may vary depending on seasonal conditions and environmental factors such as flowering cycles.

When in season, we stock fresh basil pesto for R75, along with a variety of branded vegetable stickers at R20 each.

Where are the Feed the Soil Meeting Spots?

Our Meeting Spots will become your one stop drop, swop and shop! You can find us at one of the following meeting spots:

1. Ladles of Love HQ: Unit 4, Hewett Park, 17 Hewett Avenue, Epping 2 – Monday – Friday 08H30 – 15H00

2. Southern Suburbs: Blue Route Mall parking lot, Tokai, opposite Tiger Wheel & Tyre – Tuesdays 08H30 – 12H30

3. Atlantic Seaboard: The Sunset Beach Parking Lot in Sea Point – Wednesdays 08H30 – 12H30

4. City Bowl: Van Riebeek Park, Oranjezicht – Thursdays 08H30 – 12H30

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Why do we want to become one of the country’s leading conduits for sustainable farming charities?

Ladles of Love faces the challenge of feeding more than 30 000 people every day across the Cape Peninsula. The need continues to grow everyday as the lines get longer and more desperate. Struggling to keep up with the demand, many are trying to implement urban farming initiatives in their communities. As a result, soup kitchens can serve more meals comprised of healthy fresh grown produce daily.

Through our research, we have found one of the biggest problems facing our urban farmers is poor soil.

Our Feed the Soil programme offers a solution in turning your food waste into nutritious soil.

The nutrient rich compost will then be used in our network of community farms to help grow better organic produce for their local soup kitchens and markets! As a result, all will have access to healthy food while becoming self-sufficient and avoiding food shortages.

As our supporter base grows, and compost output grows along with it. We will continue to support more and more urban farming organisations with free compost from your home food waste!

Composting Partnership: Nutri Humus

At Feed the Soil, we are committed to sustainable development through community farming in Cape Town. That’s why we’ve partnered with Nutri Humus, a company that shares our passion for recycling food waste and has been active in the industry since 2018.

When organic waste ends up in landfills, it generates greenhouse gases and produces a liquid by-product called leachate, which can contaminate water sources. By returning organic waste to the soil through aerobic composting, we not only avoid these negative impacts but also complete the biocycle, transforming waste into nutrient-rich compost that supports local food production. Together, we can sustainably alleviate food insecurity and address socio-economic pressures while benefiting the environment.

Our Feed the Soil Food Waste Kit for only R220 which will include:

5 litre Food Waste Bin x 1
25 litre Storage Bin x 1
Bag of Sawdust x 1
Bag of Bokashi x 1

PURCHASE YOUR FEED THE SOIL STARTER KIT

How can you get involved?

If you would like to join our Feed the Soil programme, you can start by purchasing our Feed the Soil Starter Kit from one of our meeting spots or you can make an online purchase below.

For our Love Activists not residing in our currently active areas, we are asking you to support our community farm initiative with just R200. Your donation goes towards the development of better soil for our community farmers. Make sure you leave the message “Feed the Soil’ in your donation message.

Donate via EFT: ABSA: Acc number: 411 658 5900

*Branch code: 632005 // Please leave a reference with your name and email.

Snapscan Donations:

Our weekly meeting spots are always in need of friendly volunteers to assist. You can sign up to become a Ladles volunteer below, and we will send you weekly Feed The Soil volunteering opportunities.