Archive | July, 2010

Planting Season

By on July 30, 2010 in food

I’m sure by now most people realise that their food choices have environmental as well as health implications, which is why growing your own is a smart move.  Even if you only have a balcony or small courtyard you can still grow an amazing amount of fresh produce (see next week’s post on growing rocket [...]

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Community gardening schemes

By on July 29, 2010 in environment, food, garden, sustainability

Fab interesting website: http://www.startuk.org/eat/community-garden-schemes.aspx

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Waste Land

Waste Land at DIFF

By on July 28, 2010 in environment

I saw an amazing documentary at this year’s Durban International Film Festival.  Waste Land follows world-renowned Brazilian artist Vik Muniz through an emotional journey in the world’s largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro -  a place called Jardim Gramacho. Over three years, Muniz photographed people who inhabited the trash city and, together [...]

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Guerrila garden grows up

By on July 27, 2010 in environment, food, sustainability

Here’s an update on our guerrilla garden … we can barely keep up with the eating thereof, it’s courgette soup/pasta/fritters/frittata/ in salad etcetera etcetera then the same with spinach, beetroot, beans … we’re also giving loads away but the potatoes are too delicious and we keep them all for ourselves and ‘inner circle’ friends and [...]

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Protea?

By on July 27, 2010 in environment, indigenous

I am getting used to the Cape vegetation and the abundance of Protea plants here. The variety is amazing! Here is a pic I snapped last year in the Easter Cape, near KwaZulu-Natal. I gather this is a type of Protea or am I mistaken? The colour of the flowers is so vibrant and there [...]

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