When you are breathing dirty air, the trees will do this (shake their leaves) and ask you to come and say “we will take your dirty air and give you fresh air” And then you chop it down When you are wanting shade, the trees will do this and ask you to come “and we will shade you from the hot sun” And then you chop it down When the seasons come, the trees blossom and give fruit to feed…

Massive destruction of forests along the rivers and in the mountains of the Vhembe district of South Africa is a great cause for concern, it has already caused great losses in healthy food sovereignty where many communities in the area harvest from the wild for their survival. Dzomo la Mupo is working to alleviate this environmental degradation.

Dzaluma – an edible wild leaf vegetable that is found in abundance in the Soutpansberg mountains, is particularly tasty.

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