Meet the team – Ilet Jonker
Ilet has been a staunch Nosh supporter from the beginning of our journey in 2015 and eventually came on board as one of the Directors when we registered as a non-profit. At the beginning of the Covid period she saw …
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Meet the Team – Esi Addae
Esi joined us in October 2021 initially with the idea that she would be hauling tonnes of cabbage from donor organisations, driving pallet trucks and chopping vegetables to support feeding schemes. However, her professional skills and talents are much more …
Helping Nosh help others is becoming even easier
October has brought two exciting milestones which have been an agonisingly long, red-tape-fraught time in the making! First, we finally received confirmation of our PBO (Public Benefit Organisation) status from SARS. This means we can now issue Section 18a Tax …
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Recommended Reading – October 2021
Book review There are more and more lovely books out there which have bearing on food waste, using up surplus, reducing waste in the home and on generally tweaking our food system to a more equitable and sustainable one, we …
World Disco Soup Day(s) 2021
“In order to save the planet you have to throw a better party than the people who are ruining it.” Tristram Stuart, food waste activist and founder of Feedback World Disco Soup day is the pop-up disco that gets volunteers chopping veggies, eating good …
We talk to GaiaU
We’re super excited to be invited to present a video talk to the learners and facilitators of GAIA University Radio, which is a global permaculture learning institute based in Mexico. The main topic of the conversation on 24 March will …
World Environment Day 2020
World Environment Day
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) annually organizes events for World Environment Day, which encourages worldwide awareness and action for the protection of the environment. It is celebrated on 5 June in over 100 countries. In their ‘Food Wastage Footprint‘ report, …
Memory lane – grab the tissues
Today I was sorting through folders upon folders of images when I came across a pic which reminded me of an incident last year, before the website was up and running. One of the men in our Witpoortjie soup kitchen …
Odd Plate Dinners – launched with a bang!
Welcome drinks
Ok, so we used this quote for the Disco Soup post – but it felt right to repeat it again here: “In order to save the planet you have to throw a better party than the people who are ruining …
Disco Soup!
Why “Disco” Soup? “In order to save the planet you have to throw a better party than the people who are ruining it.” (Tristram Stuart, environmentalist). On the 28th of April 2018 Nosh collaborated with Slow Food Youth to host …