Fuel Prices are Rising: Your Food Shouldn’t Have To
South Africa is feeling the pressure. If you’ve visited a petrol station lately, you know the news aren’t great. With petrol prices rising by more than R3 per litre and diesel by over R7, the cost of living is reaching a tipping point.
While most produce travels hundreds, sometimes thousands, of kilometres before it reaches your plate, ours takes a much shorter journey, keeping things local, fresh, and less exposed to rising transport costs.
Feed The Soil is built on a different model. Our organic vegetables are grown by urban farmers right here in our community, just a short distance (roughly 30km) from Cape Town. By keeping production local, we cut out long supply chains and the rising transport costs that are putting pressure on the rest of the economy. And because we rely on compost created from your food waste rather than expensive synthetic fertilisers, we’re able to keep our prices stable. No sudden increases, just fresh, local food you can count on.
A Circular Win for Cape Town. When you support our pop-up markets, you aren’t just “beating the pump.” You are participating in a circular sustainable ecosystem that has already:
- Diverted >315 tonnes of food waste from landfills. Did you know mixed food waste sent to landfill produces approximately 700 kg CO2e per tonne, whereas the same waste composted produces just 8.1 kg CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent), a significant reduction with a meaningful positive impact.
- Directed >R3.6 million back into the hands of local farmers.
- Donated >102 tonnes of compost to community farmers.
Help Us Grow! 🌱
In a time of economic uncertainty, the most resilient food system is a local one. By choosing our organic produce, you are helping us build environmental resilience and food security for a more sustainable future.
Ready to join the movement? Head to our website and grab a Food Waste Kit for R220, start collecting your food waste, and visit us at our next pop-up to shop fresh, local, and fuel-friendly veggies!
Stay Rooted,
Micaela and the Feed the Soil Team 💚
