Here is the promised article on how to make a cold frame. This is a simple project that should not take more than 2 – 3 hours. I built both of these in 3 hours, the longest part of the job is measuring and cutting.
A cold frame is used specifically to allow for the germination [...]
Are you a market gardener, or are you looking at becoming a market gardener?
Market gardening is taking off at a pace that is astounding in South Africa, one can hardly believe the number of Farmers Markets and Local Produce Markets that have sprung up over the last 3-4 years.
Typically one finds that they are either [...]
This is one of those books that every natural gardener needs to get. It’s the refreshing breath of insightful knowledge that one needs when looking at how to naturally control pests and diseases in your garden.
Johan Gerber’s Garden Guardians is now well ensconced on my gardening bookshelf for me to use and learn [...]
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
-~Henry Ward Beecher
Am I the only one, or have you also noticed in recent years that young girls are ‘developing’ at an earlier age? My firm belief is that this phenomenon is intrinsically related to the amounts of hormones, antibiotics and associated junk that have been fed, injected and variously sprayed onto the food that makes up [...]
Have you ever wondered what it would take to live entirely off the land? It’s not as easy as one thinks, in this insightful book Barbara Kingsolver and her family decided to take a year and become true Locavores for that year. (Locavore = People who only eat products raised or grown in [...]
“In the depths of winter, I finally found that within me lay an invincible summer.”
~ Albert Camus
[Below is an article written by one of our clients, Tristram and his family have made the break and are settling down in their own piece of paradise. This is his initial post describing their beginning, we at Livingseeds.co.za wish him and his family every success and joy in their courageous descision]
At the beginning of [...]
This book is a tomb, a reference work of note and well worth every cent that you will pay for it. Running to well over 900 pages this book covers almost every aspect of living off your land. From buying land, planning a veggie garden, planting an orchard, raising and using livestock their [...]
“The art of taxation consists of so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.”
~ J.B. Colbert, French Statesman, circa 1665
