The winter took its time this year. Our days are still hitting low 30s celsius, but the night is getting a good bite. Last night our weather stations measured a low of just over 3 degrees. The frost is coming, and if we want to see vegetables in the coming months, we will have to…
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It is not just in tough times that we need to look after ourselves. Self-reliance is a means, a way of life that ensures a supply of needed (and in today’s example, wanted) things. Relying on shops, currency, health and other dastardly things like supply chains leaves a very vulnerable area of attack to anyone.…
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It is becoming more obvious by the day, why our grandparents used to say things like “in my day…”. I look back four years, when we lived in the Karoo cottage, and how we had to deal with irrigation in that parched, rainless desert climate. Being honest, looking back at the last year or just…
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It’s almost ridiculous. Everyone is talking about the world changing, things getting worse, pollution, waste, crime and economy. The largest part of the world is circling the drain, and we are far over the maximum number of human beings that our earth can sustain. We are consuming more than the earth can supply in terms…
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