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‘do nothing farming’

By on August 12, 2009 in food

There is a great post on Urban Sprout about Masanobu Fukuoka and natural farming. Fukuoka, a microbiologist who specialised in plant diseases, left his day job at the age of 25 and returned to his home farm on the island of Shikoku in Japan, where he practised natural farming, or ‘do-nothing’ farming, for fifty years. [...]

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Free produce in the parks

By on July 13, 2009 in food

This is such  a great idea that I think would work really well in Durban. “COUNCIL chiefs are bidding to create Britain’s greenest city — by growing fruit and nuts in every park and inviting the public to tuck in.  The £200,000 eco-friendly plan was devised amid fears that youngsters do not understand where food [...]

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Organic Veges

By on July 9, 2009 in food

Khanyisa Projects is assisting in the implementation of community garden projects in the eThekwini Municipality as part of the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Programme. The garden groups (from KwaMashu, Mzinyathi & Maphephetheni) will be selling their produce at the I Heart Market between 8h30 – 13h00 on Saturday, 11 July at St Mary’s Church [...]

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Green tea

By on July 1, 2009 in food, sustainability

I got this recipe for a liquid fertilizer from the permaculture course we did at the Durban Botanic Gardens.  Take a bucket of water and soak green leaves (I used comfrey) in it for a couple of days.  The resulting mixture is supposedly rich in nutrients that plants can easily absorbed.  I’ve added it to [...]

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Build a Backyard Greenhouse

By on July 1, 2009 in food, garden

Durban has been very cold as of late – 7 degrees this morning!  Probably not cold enough to invest in a greenhouse but here is a link from my crafty sister-in-law that explains how to make one yourself. http://lifehacker.com/5302117/build-an-cheaper-backyard-greenhouse

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