Eco Footprint ~ South Africa

A chronicle of our family's transition to an off-grid, more self-sufficient and eco-friendlier lifestyle, sharing, wherever possible, helpful links and ideas, in order to ease anyone else's journey along this path

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Friday, 26 February 2016

"Listen...

...do you wanna know a secret? Do you promise not to that you'll tell? Whoa oh oh Closer. Let me whisper in you...

Saturday, 20 February 2016

Vital crop

The one vegetable / fruit that I need to plant, and harvest in quantity, each year is tomatoes. Last year I was devastated when the m...

Sunday, 14 February 2016

Raised beds

Back in November when we scored some pallets from a local tile shop which were turned into the second chicken coop, we also scored some...

Saturday, 6 February 2016

Grape Harvest

Thank you, kymber - you are a special friend indeed :) Well, t'would seem that I finally got the pruning of the grape vines rig...

Thursday, 4 February 2016

R.I.P. Scallywag

We rescued our dog, Scallywag, from a "street seller" in Hout Bay in January 2000. These "street sellers" use their adu...

Monday, 1 February 2016

Abnormal

These pics were taken at 13.36 p.m. today The temperature outside in the shade We have never had temperatures in the 40's befor...

Saturday, 30 January 2016

Chickens

Well, the chicks are all growing up. They'll be 3 months old on Tuesday. And it looks like, serendipitously, only one of the chick...

Saturday, 23 January 2016

Deterring thieving mouse birds

(This is a report back from my earlier post regarding the deterring of mouse birds in our fruit trees) There is always some pest whic...

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