Home Capetonian’s rooftop food-growing system spreads throughout SA HandPicked CityFarm, set up on the roof of Kenilworth Centre in Cape Town, grows a variety of vegetables in six tunnels.

HandPicked CityFarm, set up on the roof of Kenilworth Centre in Cape Town, grows a variety of vegetables in six tunnels.

HandPicked CityFarm, set up on the roof of Kenilworth Centre in Cape Town, grows a variety of vegetables in six tunnels.

Louis-Gillis Janse van Rensburg (left, founder of Fresh Life Produce), Akhona Gxuluwe (production manager at HandPicked CityFarm), and Gouwa Waja (marketing manager at Kenilworth Centre) in one of the tunnels.

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