Soil sustains life and without it we would be hungry, homeless and naked!
Soil grows 95 percent of the food we eat, yet only 25 per cent of the ...

“The world is headed for a post-antibiotic era in which common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can once ...

Wasting food is terrible. But sending food waste to landfill makes the problem worse.

When we think about food waste, ...

We have had a very very mild winter up here in the Highveld. While we feel nice about not being too cold during those long dark nights, this is not good. Cold is crucial to the natural cycles of nature. Cold sorts out the problem of late summer by driving down insect ...

For most people compost is a means to an end. You dig it into your garden and the soil is healthier and then, wow, your plants grow better. There ...

Last week I attended a GCX organised breakfast on "water as a business risk".

In the up market areas of South Africa we tend to think of water and drought. So in Cape Town everyone knows how much days of water are left before the rains ...

Plants nurture a whole world of creatures in the soil that in return feed and protect the plants, including and especially trees. It is a subterranean community that includes worms, insects, mites, ...

We were fortunate to spend a few days in Durban and the Drakensberg. As always when traveling you stay in strange beds and use strange bathrooms.

So you don’t always know where the light switches are, how to turn on/off the air-conditioner (or open the remote controlled curtains). Or even know how ...

South Africa is currently in a drought, and the municipalities are imposting stricter and stricter water restrictions on us all.

These water restrictions are not an excuse for you not to care and water your plants, instead ...

A compost heap should be full of different types of insects. Broadly these are “shredders” and “predators”. Shredders are key to breaking ...

Winter has arrived. That doesn't mean that you should stop gardening. There is a lot you can do in Winter.

The absence of juicy summer fruits in winter mean that your ...