The Soweto farm that turned school grounds into food security
Daily Maverick | 18.05.2026 18:56
The Jerusalem artichokes don’t look like much. Sprawling and a little wild against the fence line of Faranani Primary School in Soweto, they could pass for overgrowth. Then Gregory Mkhize crouches down and starts to pull. What comes out of the red soil is a pale, knobbed tuber, selling at R150 a kilogram to buyers in Johannesburg. One plant, he said, can fill a five-litre bucket.
