- Identify Relevant stakeholders in each Local Municipality, in this case, healers
- Work with them to identify the space to formulate the nursery premises. This would be a central point which is easily accessible to all concerned
- Draw up a database of all known healing herbs in that local municipality
- Liaise with South African Biodiversity Institute on the known species of plants in that local municipality as we as getting a list of the endangered
- Teach the local healers on how to sustainably harvest the medicinal plants
Phase 2
- Identifying Medicinal Plants and proper use thereof
- Sustainable harvesting of Medicinal plants
- Establishing a Nursery of Medicinal plants
- Promoting a healthy community through traditional medicines
Further Breakdown of Nursery Project
Part of Phase 2
- Plant all the herbs found and used in the area.
- Create 10 green jobs for the young healers and women in the community who will water and take care of the plants
- Invite Local school children to learn about growing plants and to assist in starting their own gardens in their schools or homes
- Once the plants have grown, they will then be prepared in the proper so at to be sold to create income
- Some of the plants will be replanted to replenish and rehabilitate the local biodiversity
- The project will be ongoing as they will constantly be replanting
