Plotting The Way Ahead

Growing your own vegetables is becoming increasingly de rigeur here in the UK and demand for allotments is such that the National Trust recently released land sufficient to create 1 000 new allotments across Britain.
Although I remain conflicted about buying fruit and veg flown in from Africa, knowing how dependent communities can be on such [...]

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Permaculture #2 (or, you can’t keep a good cock down)

Chickens aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. Years ago, for some reason never explained, my parents kept them in a run at the end of the garden. “Chickens,” they mutter now, “attract snakes”. They’re also messy and the roosters tend crow at ungodly hours.
Nevertheless, in permaculture they’re very good for clearing up [...]

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Permaculture #1

There must be few middle-class South Africans who don’t spend a disproportionate amount of their income at Woolworths, or Mother Woolies as a friend once put it. For foreign readers Woolies is our equivalent of Marks and Spencer, a shop generally to be relied upon for delivering the goods where others fail.
When I worked [...]

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