Smallholders can consider themselves lucky if they need to know how to preserve artichokes. For, as we wrote about on page in the November edition […]
Author: Staff Reporter
Plant Disease And Your Vegetables
Diseases on your vegetables can cause loss of yield and damage to vegetables, which reduce the quality of your harvest. With warmer weather most smallholders […]
Nguni Cattle: A Good Option For Your Plot
Smallholders with a larger than usual piece of land, who are looking to keep cattle, would do well to consider keeping nguni cattle. The group […]
Rocket Stove: Eco-friendly Heating & Cooking
Smokeless combustion, rocket stove and donkey boiler: three terms that are interlinked and which could, in rural setting, provide a low-cost, sustainable, eco-friendly solution to […]
Choose Your Chicken: Amberlinks
Steady and reliable are the reasons poultry owners give for choosing Amberlink chickens. Adaptable is another important trait, so a smallholder who wants to set […]
The Mongoose On Your Smallholding
You know you have seen a mongoose on your smallholding if you have seen a short-legged animal with a pointed nose, small ears, and a […]
SAPS’ Stock Theft Stats Not The Whole Picture, Says TLU SA
Although SAPS’ crime statistics for April to June show an 8% decrease in stock theft that’s not the whole picture, says the TLU SA. While […]
Invasive Trees Are Also The Thirstiest
It is well-known that alien invasive trees and other plants have a negative effect on the environment where they establish themselves. What is less well-known, […]
South African Co-Op Fights For Food Security
This South African co-op started by young people in kwaHlaza, KwaZulu-Natal believes entrepreneurship in agriculture is very important. Lindokuhle Mthembu, chairman of the Zozubhodle Co-operative […]
Try Multi-Species Grazing
Multi species grazing entails having different species of livestock and even poultry grazing in a pasture at the same time. Grazing on the average smallholding […]