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Food Garden Network Workshop

Healthy Meals from Your Garden

The Food Garden Network and Durban Botanic Gardens invites you to September’s Food Garden Network capacity-building workshop:

Time: 2pm – 5pm, 9 September
Venue: Durban Botanic Garden Permaculture Garden (Parking near the Visitors’ Centre)
Cost: R25 per person

Learn how to cultivate an organic kitchen garden for a regular supply of fresh and [...]

WWW!

Yes, you guessed it (maybe)!  World Water Week!

The 20th annual World Water Week, organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute, is underway this week with a focus on water quality. The event is a meeting of experts, practitioners, decision makers and leaders from around the globe to exchange ideas, foster new thinking and develop solutions. The three issues that will dominate [...]

Grow a tree!

My sister recently blogged on a new initiative, Grow a Tree, and as it is Arbor Month, I thought it was an opportune moment to share this. The organisation sells starter packs so that you can choose and grow up to twelve indigenous, South African trees from scratch! In a bag! Pretty cool! I think this is a great idea as a gift for someone with enough space or as a means to green open spaces, parks etc with some guerrilla gardening. What do you think?

SA Blog Finals! A vote for Sprig is…

a vote for mulch love :-)

Dear Spriggers,

We are happy to announce that we have been selected for the finals of [...]

Another use for sardines

The sardine run has recently hit Durban and people have been pulling sardines out of the sea in bucket loads.  If you’ve ended up with a fridge full of the little fish, and can’t face another sardine meal, then you can use them ‘as fertiliser like them Pilgrim fathers’, according to regular commenter and occasional blogger Khalid.  Anyone tried this?

Sardine Run

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