WE COULDNT BE PROUDER!!! 3 KZN National Edu-Plant WINNERS in KZN are all Sustainable Schools ! #EduPlantFinals EduPlant eduplantza

🌿 KwaNgubeni Primary School also obtained number one🏆 🥇 in the EduPlant Provincial Greening Competition category for KZN schools demonstrating outstanding commitment to food security and environmental education through the power of permaculture. They are truly leaders in growing a greener, healthier South Africa! Winning R6000 🌱

👏 A huge congratulations to Nobanda for the NATIONAL Centres of Excellence in the Competition 2025! Over the two-year EduPlant intervention, these Centres of Excellence have gone beyond their own gardens - mentoring neighbouring schools, sharing knowledge, and inspiring lasting change across their communities.
🥈 2nd Place winning R30,000.0🏾

🥳Big Congrats to Nkabini Primary 🌟🌱
So proud to share that Nkabini Primary School won 2nd place in the national EduPlant competition 2025!🏆
Representing KZN, the school stood out for their amazing teamwork and commitment to creating a thriving, sustainable food garden that feeds and inspires their community. 2nd place winning R20 000 🌿🌻

Well done to all the learners and teachers — what an incredible achievement! 👏🌍

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A huge congratulations to the Provincial Winners of the #EduPlantFinals 2025! 🎉

Across all nine provinces, these schools have demonstrated outstanding commitment to food security and environmental education through the power of permaculture. They are truly leaders in growing a greener, healthier South Africa! 🌱

Meet the PROvINCIAL Champions:

🏆Eastern Cape: Jamangile Secondary School
🏆Free State: Dr MG Mngoma Public School
🏆Gauteng: Philip Kushlick Special School
🏆KwaZulu-Natal: Kwa Ngubeni Primary School
🏆Limpopo: Moriting Primary School
🏆Mpumalanga: Mahhushe Agricultural School
🏆North West: Temoso Special School
🏆Northern Cape: Simololang Primary School
🏆Western Cape: Rouxville Primary School

Each of these incredible winners receives R6,000 to expand and sustain their vital school food gardens! 👏

The EduPlant Programme is empowering schools to strengthen nutrition and community involvement. Implemented by @foodandtreesforafrica and proudly sponsored by @tigerbrands_za ...

👏 A huge congratulations to the NATIONAL Centres of Excellence in the #EduPlantFinals Competition 2025!

Over the two-year EduPlant intervention, these Centres of Excellence have gone beyond their own gardens - mentoring neighbouring schools, sharing knowledge, and inspiring lasting change across their communities.

🥇 1st Place – R40,000.00 - Dilopye Pre-Vocational School from Gauteng
🥈 2nd Place – R30,000.00 - Nobanda Primary School from KwaZulu-Natal
🥉 3rd Place – R20,000.00 - Alabama from the North West

Implemented by @foodandtreesforafrica and proudly sponsored by @tigerbrands_za ...

The moment we’ve all been waiting for! 🌟
Join us in celebrating the NATIONAL WINNERS of the #EduPlantFinals Competition 2025!

🥇 1st Place – R30,000.00 - Molefe Mooke Primary School from GAUTENG
🥈 2nd Place – R20,000.00 - Nkabini Primary School from KZN
🥉 3rd Place – R10,000.00 - Toronto Primary School from LIMPOPO

These schools stood out nationally for their innovation, teamwork, and lasting impact in transforming their school grounds into thriving, sustainable food gardens that feed and educate their communities. 🌻

Implemented by @foodandtreesforafrica and sponsored by @tigerbrands_za, growing food security across South Africa, one school at a time. 🌿

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EduPlant School Finalist learners are currently presenting their food garden journeys to the judges at the #EduPlantFinals, hosted by @foodandtreesforafrica in partnership with @tigerbrands_za.

The learner presentations are a crucial aspect of the competition, as they demonstrate to the judges the skills that have been grown and the knowledge harvested over the past two years. Each school, comprising of four learners representing their team, is given 15 minutes to "show and tell" about what makes their school food garden unique, as well as its impact and ripple effect into the community.

The judging panel will also consult each school's Portfolio of Evidence - a comprehensive document and showcase that details their journey from start to finish - before final scoring takes place. 

Over the next 24 hours, these learners are sharing how determination, patience and little bit of 'grit' can transform unerserved areas into local food security hubs. They are true champions of our shared green future. ...

Finalist learners are presenting their food garden journeys to the judges at the #EduPlantFinals 🌿✨
They’re sharing how teamwork, innovation, and care for the Earth have transformed their schools and communities, strengthening local food security and inspiring sustainable change.

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Finalist learners are presenting their food garden journeys to the judges at the #EduPlantFinals 🌿✨
They’re sharing how teamwork, innovation, and care for the Earth have transformed their schools and communities, strengthening local food security and inspiring sustainable change.

#YouthInnovation #GreenEducation ...

It's been approximately six years since the last time the #eduplantfinals Competition was hosted in-person as a three-day funfilled, actvity-packed event 🥳

We are so excited that today we get to welcome over one hundred learners from schools across South Africa to participate in this prestigious event at Konka Tours in Rustenburg 🏕🎡

We expect to meet many new faces, as well as welcome back some familiar ones; and of course our seasoned veterans 🌳

Many of the learners are currently on their flights and busses, eagerly anticipating the days ahead - presentations, dancing, singing, drumming, hiking, tree planting, herb workshops, t-shirt painting and much more!

The event will culminate in a final gala luncheon during which the winning schools for this cycle will be announced 📣

What an incredible way to celebrate the impact of the EduPlant Programme supported by @tigerbrands_za since 2019 and implemented by @foodandtreesforafrica since 1994.

PICTURED HERE: Learners from the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Gauteng Province.

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Learners from the EduPlant Programme have been hard at work over their two year intervention, utilising permaculture and promoting sustainable practices.

This has both improved nutrition for themselves and their community, as well as fostered whole systems thinking.

Food & Trees for Africa congratulates all the schools who have made it to the EduPlant Finals Competition taking place next month.

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Announcing the 2025 EduPlant Finalists!

EduPlant is excited to announce the finalist schools for the EduPlant School Garden and Greening Programme, in partnership with @foodandtreesforafrica proudly sponsored by @tigerbrands_za

Over the past two years, these schools have embraced agroecology and permaculture principles, growing nutritious food, restoring ecosystems, and building stronger communities. Their hard work has earned them a place in the EduPlant Finals Competition, taking place this October in Rustenburg.

For many of the learners and educators, this journey will be filled with firsts: their first time leaving their towns, flying on aeroplanes, and joining peers from across the country in an unforgettable camp experience. 🛫🏕️

The Finals will include:
🎨 Painting
🌳 Forest trails & tree planting
🍲 Delicious meals
🌿 Herb & permaculture lessons
🥁 Drumming & cultural activities

It all ends with a formal gala luncheon, where the winners of amazing prizes for their schools will be announced! 🏆

Celebrating these schools, their impact, and the power of gardens and greening.

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