How to make your own wildlife pond: from start to finish Building your own pond might seem like a daunting task. How large should it be? How deep and how do I maintain it and not end up with an algae and mosquito-infested mess? A well-designed and planted wildlife pond can have many benefits for […]
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Five Things to do in the garden this August After the cold snap, we experienced all across South Africa in mid-July, most gardeners may look at their garden and wonder if it’s even worth gardening this time of the year. With spring a month and a half away, this is in fact the ideal time
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The world is changing. Year after year, new record-breaking temperatures are recorded from Europe to Beijing. Storm surges and hurricanes batter coastal towns, and it is becoming clear that cities need to change and adapt to combat the worst effects of climate change. From battling the urban heat island effect to tackling environmental destruction and
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Introduction: All around the globe, Energy costs are rising. In South Africa, we also have to deal with an unstable energy grid and increasing blackouts impacting how we live and work. With added environmental concerns, understanding your energy usage and finding ways to reduce it has become more crucial than ever. One powerful tool in
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What is Cob? Cob is an ancient building material that has been used for centuries worldwide. It is a natural and sustainable material made by mixing earth, sand, straw, and water. Cob has many advantages over other building materials; It is cheaper, more eco-friendly, and has excellent insulation properties. This blog post will discuss how
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What is rewilding? Rewilding is a form of environmental restoration that include multiple disciplines and can include reforestation, ecological rehabilitation, and re-establishing keystone species into degraded ecosystems. All across the globe, environmental scientists are testing strategies for rehabilitating and restoring ecologically degraded environments to their former glory. This benefits the ecosystem’s biodiversity and can even
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When approaching clients for a garden design, I often hear the phrase, ‘I can’t have a nice garden because my dogs destroy and eat everything.’ If this seems familiar and resonates with you, there is good news. Nature is exceptionally resilient, and there are many ways to design a pet-friendly garden. In this blog, we
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The world is waking up to the devastating effects and long-term damage that rising CO2 levels can cause in the earth’s atmosphere and increasing global temperatures. In the past couple of years, we have seen record-breaking temperatures all across the globe and extreme weather wreaking havoc and causing large-scale destruction from wildfires to flooding to
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Our ancestors, as far back as the hunter-gathers, foraged in nature for part of their food. A recent archaeological find in Iraq by the Liverpool John Moores University revealed that Neanderthals survived on various berries, wild nuts and grasses, and dried meat. From then to now, we have domesticated a vast array of food crops
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Modern-day suburbia is dominated by one garden feature: the well-manicured lawn. It has become so synonymous with suburban living that those of us, who dare to let our properties grow wild, are sometimes judged severely by our neighbours. It is rare to find a garden without some kind of lawn. I understand why it is
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