JAM provides seeds, tools and agricultural training for rural communities in the countries where they operate, enabling families to help themselves.

In 2007, a nutrition education and school gardening project called Healthy Futures South Africa will provide 10,000 South African learners with nutrition, hygiene and agricultural training,

A school gardening project in the Mt. Frere region of the Eastern Cape within South Africa has also established 13 school gardens in the community, which help the schools to teach learners about gardening, provides food for the school and generates income by selling produce to the community.