With today being designated World Rabies Day there is good reason to focus on the current state of this and other animal diseases in South […]
Month: September 2023
How to Make Pickled Onions
What do smallholders do when given a bag of baby onions? We pickle them of course! Pickling onions has to be among the quickest, easiest […]
Are these Seven Livestock Breeds Suitable for Your Smallholding?
Ease of care, cost of nutrition, housing and finally usage are just some of the factors which affect the suitability of various livestock breeds on […]
Limpopo Gets Foot & Mouth Disease Campaign
Concern about continued cases of Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) being diagnosed in Limpopo has prompted the national and provincial departments of agriculture to embark […]
Tsenza, or Wild Potato
Africa is host to a huge number of nutritionally dense traditional and ancient crops. These include orphan crops and unusual speciality food-plants for smallholder production. […]
Grow Food, Make a Difference
COMMENT – Pushed a trolley round a supermarket recently? Were you not struck by how much, and how fast, prices of even ordinary groceries, fruit […]
Lowveld Chestnut
A species with a quirky seed germination process that should appeal to Lowveld smallholders is the Lowveld Chestnut, Sterculia murex. It is a fascinating species, […]
Beware of Late Season Veld Fires this Year
If you haven’t suffered any veld fires on your smallholding so far this season, don’t breathe a sigh of relief just yet. There’s a good […]
Play a Round of Golf and Support Care Home Fundraising
Little Eden, the 56-year-old charitable society that runs two homes for severely mentally and physically compromised individuals, has no less than three fund-raising and publicity […]
Farmers get Loan Fund for Alternative Energy
To help productive farmers, both large and small, to overcome the disastrous effects of constant power outages the Dept of Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural […]