Current Issue 11
Issue 3 of Shared Earth magazine is on sale now.
Gardening with Worms
If you supply the right ingredients and care, your worms will thrive and make wonderful vermicompost for you.
Keyhole Gardens
Keyhole gardens are a mix between square-foot gardening and herb spirals, blending the best of both practices.
In Search of Good Food
Pia Taylor explores farmers’ and organic markets across South Africa in search of the freshest, yummiest food and produce.
Kitchen Energy Efficiency
What should the home cook be doing in a world of rising energy costs and accompanying environmental concerns?
From Suburbia to Self-Sufficiency
Follow Tanya Factor and her family’s off-the-grid journey as they learn about food security in baboon territory.
Sustainable Poultry
One of the first animals that most people on farms and smallholdings decide to acquire are chickens.
Chickens in the City
Just when Wendy Young’s neigh-bours thought she had completely lost touch with reality by pulling up her garden and planting veggies –she got chickens!
A House of Sand
Dianne Budd talks her husband into building a sandbag house — and loves the end result!
McGregor
Sam Adams explores McGregor, which he describes as a place of green history, green tension and green potential.
Tie up your Camel!
Three notable greenies share their wisdom with a graduate who worries that she’s setting herself up for a life of poverty.
World 2.0
World 2.0 is not a post-capitalist system. It’s the existing one, pointed in the right direction and given the correct signals to do the right things.
When is the next issue coming out?? Am eagerly anticipating some more juicy reading!
Please advise when the next issue is due out.
Hi Pauline and Tarin. Unfortunately, Shared Earth magazine is no longer being published because we have not received the support from advertisers that we need to continue. We’re brainstorming ideas to see how we can (and if we should) continue online, so if you have any ideas I’d love to hear them: steve@sharedearth.co.za
Hi Steve
After checking for Shared Earth every time I pass CNA and Exclusive Books and not finding it, I finally have logged onto your website and I am very sad to hear that it is no longer being published.
Of the 2 magazines of this type that I know are published in SA this was definately the better one and I told the assistant at my local Exclusive Books!!!
I hope that if not in printed form that you will still find a way to make an on-line version possible.
Good luck and best regards,
Andrew
Thank you for your kind words Andrew.
We have decided to focus on the website instead of having a magazine printed every 2 to 3 months. We would really like to build up the website so that it becomes the site to go to, to get everything you need or want to know regarding self sufficiency and sustainable living in South Africa and where information, news and ideas can be exchanged between like-minded people all over South Africa.
This has become our project for this year, so do keep an eye on the website for all the exciting changes coming and feel free to comment and add any contributions you would like to once we get going.
PS. How can I order copies of back issues?
We have all 3 issues available for order. They are R20 each (incl postage to you). Please send an email direct to me: gaye@sharedearth.co.za with your postal address and how many of each copy you would like and I will email an invoice to you and post your magazines to you.
Its such a pity that Shared Earth has had to stop as a result of a lack of advertising. I hope you are able to bring it out as an e-zine.
Articles like the one on the home made solar dehydrator are so useful for projects in rural communities.
I was also sad to hear that the mag is no longer being published. However it would most definately be great to see an online magazine. I would be very happy to promote this as part of my teachings at school.
I would love to hear about your plans.
Smiles and sunshine, Sara.
I am interested in getting a back issue of the copy that highlighted sandbag building. Would you perhaps have a copy ?
Hi Gaye and Steve
Like the others, I am sad to hear that Shared Earth is no more. I read a copy of Issue 3 at my Mom’s and loved it. I’d like to order all three back issues. I have emailed you, Gaye, but not received a response. Are they still available?
Are you still intending to do something with the Shared Earth website? I think that would be so great.
Good luck, Kim