Garden-in-a-Bucket supports sustainable food nutrition solution for community

More than 50 families in the semi-rural community of Winterveld, northwest of Tshwane, can now establish home-based vegetable gardens to support their nutrition needs after receiving Garden-in-a-Bucket kits from Tiger Brands, along with food hampers.

The families collected their kits at the community’s faith-based support centre, Lehaheng La Adullame, which is a beneficiary of Tiger Brands’ nutrition support programme.

Garden kits are distributed through Tiger Brands’ implementation partner, Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA), as part of their Garden-in-a-Bucket (GinB) initiative targeted at marginalised communities to facilitate community development and bolster overall food security. The kits contain vegetable seedlings, essential hand tools, a watering can, and FFTA’s Growing Green manual. Recipient families were also provided with hands-on, on-site training to grow their gardening knowledge and confidence by a FTFA facilitator.  

Lehaheng La Adullame plays a central role in a community facing high levels of unemployment, poverty and food insecurity. The centre supports more than 100 individuals from surrounding areas, providing assistance for health and wellbeing, as well as critical skills development, such as gardening and other trade related skills like welding.

At the end of 2025, Tiger Brands helped establish a food garden at the centre, which now contributes generously to residents’ daily nutrition needs. The company also donated gas burners and gas bottles, reducing the centre’s reliance on open-fire cooking.

Over the coming weeks, residents at Lehaheng La Adullame will draw on their experience to support families as they establish and care for their gardens, offering ongoing guidance to ensure they produce nutritious food for their households.

Tiger Brands takes a sustainable approach to addressing food insecurity in South Africa’s vulnerable communities. While food hampers provide immediate relief, the company prioritises longer-term solutions such as vegetable gardens, enabling beneficiaries to build self-reliance and lasting food security.

“We believe real impact comes from cultivating self-sufficiency and self-reliance within communities. By sharing skills, knowledge and practical tools to grow food, families can support their own nutrition needs well into the future, without remaining dependent on short-term relief,” says Preeya Naidu, Senior Manager: Socioeconomic Development at Tiger Brands.