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Can We Feed Ourselves Yet?

We fed ourselves out of our own garden within 8 months of moving here; however the last year has not been a very successful gardening endeavour. The hot summer and brutal winter full of black frost killed most of our...
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Why Supporting a Healthier Food Chain is Important

The food we eat has a profound impact on our health, the environment, and the economy. In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the importance of supporting a healthier food chain. A healthier food chain is one that...
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Self-Determination Challenge Week 3 – Cook All Your Meals, No Takeaways

It's week 3! Check out week 1 and week 2 to catch up. This Week's Challenge It's time to get back to the kitchen - not necessarily bare foot and pregnant, especially if you're a guy, but it's time! :D...
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Self-Determination Challenge Week 2 – Plant One Edible, Anywhere

How did you go with Week 1's read labels and buy local challenge? Time for week 2! This Week's Challenge     This week's challenge is to plant something edible. Whether you live on a farm, in a flat or...
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Self-Determination Challenge Week 1 – Read Labels, Buy Local

Let's face it, the world is pretty messed up right now because it is being run by some not very nice people determined to make our lives as miserable as possible. Well we say to hell with that! We are...
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We Ate From Our Garden for the First Time!

This should have been posted 3 weeks ago already - but we have day jobs! :D We had our first mini harvest recently and we are still getting produce from our very young kitchen garden. We have used permaculture principles...
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Lessons in Farm Roads

Permaculture is very clear on this matter - design the water systems / infrastructure first, measure swales, make all roads on contour, then put in structures! This is stuff we know, but of course, life intervenes and things don't always...
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Pompom Weed (and Friends) Removed!

It took 3 men, 4 weeks, 6 days a week, to clear 21ha of 4 hectically invasive plant species! Moses and Ntsako dug it all up. Dickie fetched it with the golf cart and tractor and delivered to a central...
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We’re Qualified to Practice Reiki

One of the goals of our farm is to create a sanctuary of peace and healing. To this end, I've been studying reiki for some time to be able to practice it once we have a healing centre up and...
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Operation Pompom Weed!

We're calling it the Devil's Spawn now. Pompom weed man, that stuff is everywhere! This incredibly destructive invader got here in the 60's, then just thrived because there are no natural predators to stop it. Half the country is a...
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