From a hastily hacked off wattle branch to a custom-designed four-wheel-drive fire engine, the range of firefighting equipment available is vast. And there’s something suitable […]
Category: FEATURES
‘Firescaping’ Your Immediate Surroundings
Fire on your property can be terrifying and smallholders in provinces where winters are dry, and dangers of veld fires are high, should examine the […]
Making firebreaks in time for winter
This is part two in a five-part series, Preparing for Fire Season. For more, click here. Fire prevention includes the much-discussed question of firebreaks. The […]
Preparing for Fire Season
In the dead of a dry winter on the Highveld, with even a slight breeze blowing there is very little chance that you will be […]
Sewage works (that function…) for the home
This is the final installment in a five-part series called Fluid Waste Management & Septic Tanks. To read the rest, click here. The solution to fluid […]
How to re-use waste water safely
This is the fourth instalment in a five-part series called Fluid Waste Management & Septic Tanks. To read the rest, click here. On a water […]
How to size, and build, a septic tank
As often as not, septic tank problems arise not because of abuse and misuse but simply because the system is too small for the household. […]
Maintaining The Health of Your Septic Tank System
Odd though it may seem, a septic tank system is a living thing. Inside the chambers of the tank lurk billions of microscopic organisms that […]
How to break your septic system
This is the second in a five-part series called Fluid Waste Management & Septic Tanks. To read part one, click here. A fluid waste management system […]
Let’s talk about sh*t…
Given the current broken ~ even collapsed ~ state of many of South Africa’s municipal sewerage plants, smallholders can take comfort in the fact that […]