Green Farm, Limpopo

The village is situated in the north east region of Limpopo province within the newly demarcated Collins Chabane Local Municipality.

There are new sections being established due to growth and the need for children to get their own spaces; Hunguta poto (Reduce the size of a cooking pot) and Tshumbula doki (Where donkeys sprawls - used to be open grounds) The area experiences a prolonged heat season, running from August to April.

The rain is most likely from October to January and this is the time where the residents plough their yards for maize, water melons, pumpkins, beans etc.

In the period, there is also an abundance of fruits in the yards (Mangoes, Papawa/papaya) and you can enjoy tintoma, tinyiri or tinyiya, tintsengele, mapfilwa and later Mahodinga/ makajawa na makwakwa.

The staple food is vuswa (pap, meal cooked with maize) and vuswa is served with any relish which can be found in the yards (guxe, theka, muxiji, tinhwembe, tinyawa) and meat type of food found in the forest e.g. bush meat, matomani(mopani worms), swidongodi or bought from the supermarkets Most people at Green Farm are unemployed.

Most men are self-employed to support their families; from roofing (ku fulela tindlu), Construction, Welding, fencing, fishing and farming (Crop and Animal).

People do carving (matshuri, minkombe na swinwana), moulding (timbita and majomela) and they make the traditional clothing like tinjhovo and xibelani.

Vhembe District within South Africa
Vhembe District within South Africa