200+ Youth Apply for Grootbos Skills Programmes 2026

This week was full of excitement as Grootbos Foundation interviewed over 200 young people hopeful to land a place in the Horticulture or Hospitality skills programmes of 2026. Grootbos Foundation offers a variety of pathways to employment ranging from life skills coaching, subject choice and career planning in schools to entrepreneurship, workplace experience and green skills training.

Indigenous Horticulture is the original adult skills programme introduced by Grootbos Foundation in 2003; Hospitality training was added as a skills programme in 2011. Both these skills programmes receive high numbers of applicants each year because of the value of the skills, personal mentorship and workplace experience that they offer, along with an opportunity to change one's life.