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A cold morning at Domboshava Showground Market.

Most of these women became my friends and inspired me to start women groups leading to the creation of Domboshava Community Project.

Mushrooms from the forest and bananas from the homesteads found their way at the Showground market but displayed on the ground.

Organic garden of Sekuru Murehwa in Domboshava, Zimbabwe.

Other vendors were into clothing too so competition.

Proud family with their permaculture home built from natural materials.

Proud Permaculturalist Sekuru Murehwa.

Seeing this inspired Sylvia Hove, founder of the Domboshava Community Project, to improve on the quality and conditions of the market place.

Sekuru Murehwa was already practicing permaculture at his house near the Showgrounds and used the cow dung as organic manure he picked everyday of the week at the market. This image shows Murehwa’s water source and illustrates how different elements…

The clothing business was what originally got founder Sylvia Hove into the Domboshava project.

The gateway into the market at the Domboshava Showgrounds.

The hustle and morning bustle at the Domboshava Showgrounds Market.

The permaculture garden at the Domboshava Showgrounds

Vendors at the market had to pay a fee to the district council for using this space yet the conditions were still bad.

Tomatoes for sale at the market.

Trying to make a buck at the market.

Vegetables for sale at the market.

Women at the market.

At the market and transport used scotch carts pulled by oxen.

Cows being sold at the market in the financial crisis of 2009.

Even baskets and other modern wares found their way at the market.

Goats and chickens in the same place and manure used in the garden.

VaMurehwa even had grapes in his organic garden, how awesome!

Many faces at the market.

Clothing for sale at the Domboshava Showgrounds market.