Unless it starts to rain with serious intent in the remaining ten weeks of the summer rainy season Eastern Gauteng is headed for its driest […]
Tag: WEATHER & RAINFALL
2023: The driest early summer in a decade (or more…)
If you live on a Gauteng smallholding, at least, you can be forgiven for having the feeling that the last four months of 2023 were […]
Rainfall: How long before a drought declaration?
If the weather over the summer rainfall area of South Africa continues as it started this year it can’t be long before a full-on drought […]
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 […]
Devastating Wildfires: We Have a Plan
COMMENT – So far this year runaway fires have destroyed thousands of hectares of Canadian forest, releasing clouds of smoke so large that they affected […]
Wettest Rainy Season In Almost Three Decades
With good rains over the weekend, and more forecast for the rest of the week, we can officially declare the 2022 rainy season to be […]
Back By Popular Demand: SA Smallholder Printed Magazine
To serve the interests of readers and advertisers in our “traditional” area of influence, namely Gauteng and surrounds, we are reintroducing a printed magazine from […]
Latest SA Smallholder Digital Magazine Now Ready For Download
Click here to download the latest edition of the SA Smallholder Magazine, October 2021.
Celebrate the Spring Equinox
Today is the day to celebrate the Spring Equinox, when day and night are of almost equal length. In our southern hemisphere the Spring Equinox […]
It’s the Winter Solstice!
Today is the Winter Solstice in the southern hemisphere. Can you remember your Gr 4/Std 2 geography class when you learnt about solstices? You were […]