Earthworm Urban Permaculture Movement

Urban permaculture is widely recognised as the most adaptive and durable framework for transforming urban culture and agriculture in the 21st century.

To strengthen and support this critical effort, the Earthworm Urban Permaculture Movement is established as a non-profit making movement to build and strengthen the urban base of permaculture in Swaziland. The movement seeks to contribute to the overall global movement of sustaining local and native food production through community driven urban agriculture or urban food forest. It is aimed at improving the production of fresh vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruits, physical activity, green space, job creation, storm water retention, green house gas mitigation, neighbourhood beautification, eyes on the streets, and community development through community shared agricultural efforts.

In addition the movement is fostering urban civic engagement by creating inclusive spaces for public participation and for social learning about food production and consumption, cultivate the political and social skills necessary for effective citizenship. Also the movement aims to solidify patterns for social interaction to make our voices heard as citizenship in order to solve our most difficult challenges like climate change, by promoting community led urban agriculture that can influence systems and structures.