“Did you know that wild foods have at least 10 times more nutrients than cultivated foods?” So said Tracy Armbruster in her blurb about the Wild Foods courses she conducts in Villiersdorp.
I was privileged to meet the creater and owner of Organic at Heart, “a true food restaurant” in Plumstead, where we recently enjoyed a great staff meeting. If you look at the menu and notice that they cater for wheat free, sugar free, gluten free, Halaal, raw, vegetarian and vegan eaters, it’s obvious that the woman behind this initiative knows her health science.
Hemp fibre is stronger and more durable than cotton, and no other single resource can provide us with so many diverse products at such a small cost to the planet.
The time has come to sow the seeds for our next veggie harvest. We trust that your compost is coming along nicely?
It's raining today. I didn't want it to rain right now but I am grateful for my plants to get this rain. The reason for not wanting rain is that we are up to our elbows finishing the chicken tractor. We offer you another installment by Sue Vingerhoets, farmer on Foxglove organic farm.
Even in these belt-tightening times, consumers worldwide are going green, showing with their wallets an increased interest in products that have been produced in an environmentally conscious manner.
This year the Indigenous Plant Fair returns to its roots at the KZN Botanic Gardens in Pietermaritzburg. Since those early days (2004), the Fair has grown to include food plants as well as hundreds of indigenous plants and, in 2012, to embrace low-carbon living by showcasing sustainable solutions too.
Essential in growing your own food is to keep it green all the way. So we will always be utilising waste items for all the processes which we teach. You don’t need to rush out and purchase special equipment.
This year, Fairtrade Week is celebrated from 25 February to 3 March. A local retailer invites all coffee aficionados to indulge in their favourite pastime with abandon, and a clear conscience.
Bhutan plans to become the first country in the world to turn its agriculture completely organic, banning the sales of pesticides and herbicides and relying on its own animals and farm waste for fertilisers.
There’s a lot to be said about winemaking the way it used to be. There were no chemicals, no “technological advancements” that made the process a process, and natural balance was far more important than balance sheets.
This month I am up to my elbows in other people's business! Farm living is not strictly about farm life.
Join us for a fun, information - filled talk and learn to balance your physical, emotional and mental self. The first of Mo-Jo's Light Guide Workshops is 'The Seed - You are what you think.'
Chocolate may be one of those ‘guilty pleasures’, but now that 25% of the cocoa that Woolworths is sourcing for its boxed chocolate range is certified sustainable, you now have another reason for chocolate to make you feel good.
Fuel saving, alternative energy, water saving, organic foods, office equipment, household products and even green toys: The Green Expo is destined to become a regular on your calendar.
This year's Green Wine Awards proved that green wines are rapidly moving form the fringe to standard practice - with you and I as consumers part of the team to demand and drink only what conserves the earth.
Spring is a great time to clean out the bathroom cupboard and take a close look at those chemicals you no longer want to burden your body or the environment with.
Fuel saving, alternative energy, water saving, organic foods, office equipment, household products and even green toys: this expo is destined to become a regular on your calendar.
I don’t normally indulge in energy drinks. I find passion goes a long way towards fuelling my daily task. If you’re living your dream, you tap into the Source and can keep going almost forever. So my first answer to energetic problems is to do what you love – and gradually turn that into your living.
