Urban Farmers - Cape Town
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Website: http://www.livingsoil.blogspot.com
Location: cape town
Members: 10
Latest Activity: Nov 5
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Double Digging Veg Beds 2 Replies
Started by jacci. Last reply by de Moffarts Eugène Aug 30.
Moving around South Africa
Started by Toni B Walters Jan 29.
Native food crops 3 Replies
Started by Joel Kramer. Last reply by Toni B Walters Jan 14.
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Comment by ken hargesheimer on August 17, 2009 at 7:41pm -
I have a document ORGANIC, NO-TILL GARDENING/MINI-FARMING I will email to anyone who request it. minifarms@gmail.com No digging, tilling. Do not buy anything for the garden except seed.
Tue, Dec 30, 2008
Dear Ken,
Thank you for all the info. I am applying it in my own vegetable patch. It is working. Got half a pocket of potatoes off a square metre. So would imagine about 10 pounds per square yard. This off previously dead low, carbon soil. Sure next crop will be better. Got yams coming up on same spot already. Want to plant herbs and spices. I will send photos.
Your advise is so simple. People do not believe me when I tell them. I am so excited about growing things now. This coming from a commercial plum farmer. May you be blessed this holy season a thousand times more than you blessed me with you help. Jeremy Karsen, middagkrans@mwebbiz.co.za
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Comment by Joel Kramer on May 9, 2009 at 12:54pm -
There is a group here, Abalami. They work in the townships making soil productive and selling the produce through CSA's to the suburbs.
http://www.impumelelo.org.za/project_detail.php?ID=733
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Comment by Wayne Burleson on May 9, 2009 at 8:09am - We my wife and I are working at raising money for a return trip to Africa sometime this fall.
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Comment by Joel Kramer on May 9, 2009 at 5:06am
- Great Wayne, Best of luck!
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Comment by Wayne Burleson on May 7, 2009 at 11:04am
- Nice to see this in Cape Town. We were there last year and we are working on bucket gardens for Informal Settlements. Please stay tuned at www.pasturemanagement.com
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Comment by Joel Kramer on January 13, 2009 at 4:29pm
- So, any events coming up this February?
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Comment by Pienaar on October 2, 2008 at 7:35am -
Just wanted to say hi.
I was sure surprized when I saw someone from SA and from Capetown no less!
Hope this group thrives in time
-Greetings
Pienaar : )
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HOW TO - ADD A LINK
Several people have experienced difficulty putting working links into comments and blogs etc and I know it is clumsy.... so here is how you do it.....
First type the text you want to appear.... ie IAN'S PAGE
Then go back and highlight the link text.
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Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.
I would be happy to hear any comments you may have. This is very much a work in progress so plese feel free to ask me to add anything you think is needed.
I don't want to make our community hide bound by rules and regulations but I think that, as the community has grown, some explanation of what is expected is needed.
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Hi Everyone, I've started to collect together recipes from various posts on the site and put them all together here.
If you have a recipe you want to add on here, just post it on the site and leave a comment on my page telling me where it is and I'll go and fetch it back here.
They are organised in Contributor Order but I'm open to better suggestions!
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HOW TO - MAKE COMPOST
Recently there was an excellent discussion about composting. I’ve pulled together all the various comments here. You can also watch KGI's video on composting here.
KATE’S ADVICE
I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but
1 you have to fill it up all at once
2. it seemed mostly
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I have just written this note so that I can see what we can achieve by using this new feature.
If you read this and have any suggestions then please leave a comment on my page or email me.
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