Dear Readers After more than a decade (10 years wow!) of free food gardening posts for South Africa I have come to the end of this blog's journey. I have successfully saved my old blogger blog Roots and Shoots by migrating to Whisker Flowers on WordPress after Google started culling its traffic. Now I am… Continue reading New Adventures Elsewhere: Retiring Whisker Flowers
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Sustainable, Productive and Economical Vegetable Gardening Series
I have a few articles that are meant to be read as a series, one following on the other and building upon that information. One of the first series I started was how to grow and maintain a productive garden without breaking the bank, yourself or the environment. 1.Vegetables Worth Growing The very first article… Continue reading Sustainable, Productive and Economical Vegetable Gardening Series
Advise for the Beginner Vegetable Gardener
Here I am going to provide a collection of articles, which will present the essential information for the beginner vegetable gardener or homesteader. A Vegetable garden consists of 4 key systems: Soil, Water, Plants & Animals. These systems are connect and influence each other, which can be illustrated as follows: Integrative Organic Gardening IOG The… Continue reading Advise for the Beginner Vegetable Gardener
Utilisation of Kitchen Scraps
Due to the technological and financial advantages of our modern age a lot of food simply gets wasted. You would think that with the development of all our superior food production and storage capabilities food will not go to waste so easily. The average person today is more wealthy that many medieval kings, yet… Continue reading Utilisation of Kitchen Scraps
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