Tag: self sufficient
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Links to Check Out
Hi, There are so many projects and people who are dedicated to making a positive change. I wanted to give you a few links to check out. Stay tuned for some exciting news with Mahala Love and some upcoming projects we have on the horizon. Enjoy! Rodale Institute – on regenerative agriculture Regenerative Families A…
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Time Flies When You’re Having Fun or When You’re Crawling Out of a Pandemic.
Where to begin updating you on Herban Renewal – After a pretty productive lock-down period of installing gardens, trying a few hugelculture beds, testing aquaponics, setting up the vermiculture, getting our chickens set up and starting to lay, we did the next logical thing and decided to sell the Herban Renewal property in town! Yep.…
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Regenerative lifestyle…
The word regenerative kept popping up, as things will do when something resonates with you. I was telling my kid’s dad that my goal has always been to create a regenerative home and life for our family. He asked me to explain and here is part of my reply. Regenerative- practices that create abundance; Actions…
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The Mulch Patch
May is winding down. The weather has been much cooler than most recent Mays and we have had some really hard rains followed by no rain. The garden beds are slowly taking shape and a variety of experiments, which are completely unscientific, are succeeding, or not. Overall, the growth seems slow and tedious for the…
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South Africa – Thoughts about Small Scale Farmers
Small Scale farmers were faced with uncertainty when the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, announced the lock down, telling everyone to stay at home and restrict the movement of the people to only allow essential services. The time that the president introduced the Lock Down, it was the exact time of completing the summer…
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Meet Themba
Avuxeni (Greetings). Since I was introduced into Slow Food Network five years ago (2015), I started developing interests in practical activities of people producing food for their own consumption as well as to sell the surplus to their communities. This has encouraged me to be part of the Slow Food 10 000 gardens project in Africa,…
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Greetings from Giyani
Avuxeni (Greetings) The current pandemic of Covid-19, has taught us that saving for tomorrow can save lives. When countries start to implement “Stay Home/Lock Down,” we witnessed millions of people from around the world flooding the retailers through panic buying since they have power to purchase. Those that have no power to purchase were left…
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Indoor Gardening for Beginners: How to Start a Garden Amid the Coronavirus Lockdown
If you are looking to get started with your own indoor garden, check out this article. It has great tips to get you going no matter your space limitations or the color of your thumb. https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-05-02-how-to-start-indoor-gardening-coronavirus-lockdowns.html