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Corporate gardens feed hungry children
If it is possible to transform a dead piece of grey gravel along a corporate building into a row of vegetable gardens abundantly delivering organic nourishment to hungry children attending a soup...
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Protecting potatoes against common scab naturally
Incorporating cabbage and mustard residue are effective and natural ways to reduce potato common scab.
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Grow your own food step 4: Veggie planting & managing pests
Our next garden lesson involves the planning and planting of your seedlings, in your veggie beds.
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Grow your own food step 5: Who likes who in the zoo?
Who likes who in your food garden? Just like people, there are some that benefit each other and offer natural protection against predators. So it helps to know a little about companion planting when...
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Celebrating a decade of giving on Mandela Day
The green supermarket rolled up their sleeves this Mandela day to help communities and celebrate ten years of service to vulnerable communities.
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Community in the Gap talking for Nature
In 2012, the MEC for the Department of Economic Development and Tourism KZN, Michael Mabuyakhulu, announced plans for a cableway in the uKhahlamba region of the Drakensberg mountains, touting it as a...
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Being the change we want to see
A small group of environmental activists and food growers have started the Mpophomeni Conservation Group in the KZN Midlands.
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Wild about Weeds Part 4: Purslane
Puslane is delicious and nutritious. A great option for those who are just starting to forage and haven’t yet developed the taste for it yet.
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Setting new standards for greywater recycling
As South Africa becomes more environmentally aware, there has been an increase in “green” technologies and greywater recycling is no exception. However in the past, grey water has been often associated...
View ArticleBiodynamic Preparations: Principles and Practices
With French biodynamic adviser and prepmaker Vincent Masson and local biodynamic prepmaker Wendy Lilje A unique, 1st time ever opportunity to dedicate 3 full days to deepening our understanding and...
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Time for transition in South Africa
In Transition 2.0” is a film that offers hope and resilience in challenging times. It was a pleasure to be part of the audience at the Eco Film Festival this month at the Labia in Gardens. For me the...
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Four easy ways to preserve herbs
Farmers’ markets and gardens are bursting with tasty fresh herbs this time of the year, so it is a perfect time not only to enjoy them fresh but also to try preserving them for use later—especially the...
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Rekindling our sacred connection with the soil
We are at the cusp of empires falling and worlds colliding. While this may be a bold statement. In the seeming chaos of collapsing economies, unprecedented and endless wars, unpredictable weather...
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Keeping your greywater clean and useful
My wife and I were chatting recently about using more greywater in the garden. She told me about a conversation she overheard, where a woman was asking what ‘greywater’ actually was and it got me...
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Why your life depends on healthy soil
In the first of a series of articles on growing your own food, Valerie Payn starts at the root of the matter – how human health depends on fertile soil. “Healthy societies depend on healthy soil,...
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Tree Talk Part 1: A tree in an instant
That planting trees is a good idea is not disputed by many. But which trees and when? We are happy to start a tree series by arborist Caroline de Villiers from Themba Trees to help us all along: Trees...
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Food Gardening part 3: Planning a food garden
The key to having a successful food garden lies in being realistic about what you hope to achieve, given the resources you have available. These are some things to think about that will help ensure...
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Insects – an organic food gardener’s best friend
The idea that insects are a good thing for a food garden might seem contradictory. After all, most food gardeners have battled against caterpillars chomping leaves into lace, aphids sucking the life...
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Food Gardening Part 4: The art of companion planting
Companion planting is the art of combining different plant species in a group so all the plants in the group benefit from each other. A group of mutually beneficial companion plants are known as a...
View ArticleRooftop garden plants seeds of success
Working with the Johannesburg Housing Company and other partners, the JDA has planted a useful garden on the roof of a building in the inner city. Here, herbal remedies are grown alongside vegetables....
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