Loubie is a wild foods explorer, innovator, activist and consultant, whose drive is getting people to know and grow forgotten local foods. Whether teaching or speaking, she’s committed to cultivating a green consciousness.
After working as a landscape design for 30 years, in 2011 she began Making KOS, a brand of local preserves, cordials and jams earning quite a name. (Kos is the Afrikaans word for food.)
She’s initiated collaborations that fill gaps in academic research and local knowledge bases, a pilot cultivation project in the township of Khayelitsha, and Market Boxes, a meal kit company that is making it super easy for cooks to opt for an indigenous option.
Loubie’s wild-food, urban foraging walks are a learning experience where her enthusiasm combines with a deep wisdom and understanding of nature.