Two men. One challenge: To rid the Eastern Cape of malnutrition.

 

What is their secret weapon? A plant named Moringa.

 

Meet Robert Davies, former botany student turned trance-bunny turned hero! His partner in crime, Daniel “Rainman” Long, is the former owner of the underground electro-dub club Monastery. Together with a few of their friends Rob and Dan refer to themselves as deep PSY-entists who are at the beginning stages of growing a food forest.

What started a couple of months ago as a joke between Rob and Dan at a local bar, has developed into a eco-friendly man made greenhouse at the Tunnels and has the potential to save lives.

 

The PSY-entists have already planted over 1000 trees at the Tunnels and through experimentation and learning more about Moringa, they hope to grow a food forest across the Eastern Cape. Moringa will be the largest part of the food forest, however, it will be inter-cropped so that there can be other harvests during the winter.

 

“Moringa will become deciduous in the winter and that’s why our food forest won’t be a monoculture moringa venture. Rather we would like to intercrop with bamboo and hemp seeds” explains Rob.

 

The food forest will also serve as a space to facilitate and educate Eastern Cape communities on the cultivation and utilization of Moringa.

“Once we have finalized the entire project my role will be focused on spreading awareness about the project within the Eastern Cape. We want to make sure that apart from supplying the superfood we are involved with uplifting communities” says Dan.

 

Drawing from ‘treerevolutions’ such as Greenpop, the group of deep PSY-entists are taking it back to grassroots with a psychedelic edge- which could be genius or absolute madness.