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The Living Green Sustainable Farm is in Sunnydale, Cape Town.
(Note - we were based in Noordhoek until Jan 2011 and moved to a new farm on 1 Feb)
You are welcome to follow our journey towards self-sufficiency and natural living. Join as a member and keep up to date with developments. The farm is growing all the time.
Welcome! And feel free to add comments, questions, advice, pics, etc!
Sam and Cindy Adams.
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Posted by Ivan & Amy Beckett on November 6, 2011 at 8:19pm
Harvest Pics
We've been eating every day from our garden for the last month or two. Last night the entire meal was from the garden - red onion, tatsoi, pak choi, beetroot leaves, spring onion (it was a stir fry. Ok, the rice was not from the garden!) Here are some pics of recent harvests -
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ContinuePosted by Sam Adams on November 4, 2011 at 5:49pm — 1 Comment
New Arrivals
We are pleased to share our two new arrivals!
The black is the male, the pink female. They are pot-belly pigs and will come to knee height.
Cindy wants to call them Reginald and Beatrice. I want them for food, so we've settled on Reginald Rasher and Beatrice Bacon! This gives us the option to keep them or to sell them to the butcher.
We've had them two weeks now and they've doubled in size. We are feeding them a balanced pellet feed, plus lots of scraps from the farm/kitchen.
They have the old goat pen, with all the flowers and wheat that has germinated out of the goat manure! They love it…
ContinuePosted by Sam Adams on October 4, 2011 at 8:59am
Over 130 members!
Welcome to all the new members to MyFarmOnline - we are now at 130 members!
To all members - what are you planning to grow this spring??....
Posted by Sam Adams on August 30, 2011 at 11:00pm
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Germinating and Planting from Seed - ice cubes?? 1 Reply
While it is easy to buy seedlings from a nursery, many of us are planting from seeds. Have you got any tips on seed saving or germinating?? Here's one a new member provided earlier: He planted "new…Continue
Started by Sam Adams. Last reply by Ivan & Amy Beckett Nov 6, 2011.
MONKEYS 1 Reply
Here in Natal we have a problem with monkeys who eat veggies, herbs and even strip all the leaves off the roses and other plants. We have been told to use finely chopped chillies to sprinkle around…Continue
Started by Lindsay Salthouse. Last reply by Sam Adams Jul 21, 2010.
groundnuts anyone? planting & maintenance...? 3 Replies
Has anyone tried planting groundnuts or the like? Sam did you see any when you went up to Uganda (apparently its traditional staple crop there & many other African countries)? I read some…Continue
Started by Natalie Ravelo. Last reply by Sam Adams Mar 18, 2010.
How do you cope with the wind in Cape Town?! 3 Replies
What do you do when the wind is howling!?I would love to hear from you what your strategy is for coping with the strong winds we get in Cape Town? It is incredibly hard to farm in this wind! Today in…Continue
Started by Sam Adams. Last reply by Sam Adams Dec 3, 2009.
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