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Cooking Compost
The easiest way to think about composting is to pretend you’re cooking a meal for your garden. Let’s pretend you’re making a potjie. As with the real thing, you need to prepare your raw ingredients, put them in the correct container and then let it cook and stew. Before we look at the ingredients and...
The Freeman Family’s Sustainable Journey
Many times we have had people come over for a visit or a braai, and they gush with amazement at how we live our lives; they express wonder at our vegetable gardens, our fruit orchard, free-range chickens, pasture finished turkeys, and grass-finished lamb. Often we are able to put a meal before our guests that...
Building with Adobe
Adobe is a natural building material made from clay, sand, water, and sometimes with a fibrous or organic material (straw, dung) added, which is shaped into bricks using forms, and dried in the sun. Adobe structures are extremely durable and account for the oldest surviving buildings on the planet. The word adobe can be traced...
Does Your Money Walk Your Talk?
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We strive to be conscious about our energy and water usage at home, we turn off the lights when we are not in the room, we invest in grey water systems and solar hot water geysers. Some of us seek to use public transport rather than our gas guzzling cars, and purchase products with a...
South Africa’s Green Hotspots
The green movement in South Africa is growing at a rapid pace. In this series of articles, I will be exploring how the movement is developing across different parts of our country. Is it developing equally across the whole country or in some isolated pockets? Is it just a middle class hobby or are there...
What is an heirloom vegetable?
Some authorities say that heirloom vegetables are those introduced before 1951...
Heirloom Vegetables
Vegetables don’t taste like they used to! My Ouma used to grow giant tomatos, almost all flesh with an amazing flavour! What happened to watermelons that tasted like real watermelons and not like mildly flavoured water? You know, green beans never used to taste this bland! How often have you heard these statements? What happened...
Preserving summer’s bounty
If you want to become more self-sufficient in your kitchen, it makes sense to extend this self-reliance beyond the kitchen door and into the garden. Over the last year, there has been a revival, both locally and overseas, in vegetable gardening. Encouraged by the food and energy crises, and a growing awareness of the environmental...
Eating Well
Some people may find it difficult to take seriously the idea that it matters morally how we eat. Usually we eat what we like, what we are used to, what our families cooked, what’s cheap or fast or convenient. In this respect, eating seems like other kinds of consumption. We suppose that producers should be...
Getting started with renewable energy
Are you thinking about having a renewable energy system installed at your home or business? Perhaps you’re wondering how to approach the project, and how best to get started? Whether you’re new to renewables and need a helping hand or a renewable energy enthusiast who wants some straightforward advice, an renewable energy professional can provide...
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