Just so you don’t think I’m completely self-indulgent, I’m going to take a break from the magnificent holiday pictures and post about the garden at the baby sanctuary.
We visit this garden every Wednesday and it helps to provide food for the children and keep costs down for the centre. This week we had a larger number of students with us than usual, which was really gratifying and meant that we got a lot done.
The capsicums are coming along nicely.
This week we planted corn, lettuce, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, beetroot and a herb garden. The seedlings were donated by a local nursery. The government strongly encourages corporate responsibility and social upliftment here and most major (and many smaller) business have projects that they donate to, or their employees work on. Here are some shots of the planting in action.
This delightful young man is from the US – he is spending a semester here as a student. The circles are used to maximse space and water.
These are a few of my students planting a herb garden. Gorgeous Man and a few of his students dug it out and prepared the bed a few weeks ago. These two guys come from Brazil, (and yes I am aware that the horizon is sloping off in the distance – I’m not the world’s greatest photographer).
Tomatoes in the foreground, and a Gorgeous Man planting corn in the background.
There is a very sad story attatched to this garden bed. Earlier in the year (before we got involved) the team planted over a thousand onions and carrots. Then a few weeks later the groundsman for the baby sanctuary decided to weed the bed for them – can you guess what happened? Yep, they lost about 95% of the bed.
There were a few onions left, which we transplanted and currently there is one lonely carrot in the field with the tomatoes and the corn.
Finally, in my quest to bring you a full picture of life here in South Africa, I put aside my shame, ignored the bemused looks of the other shoppers and snapped this to put on the blog:
Ostrich sausages for sale in the local supermarket. It’s nice to know that Australia is not the only nation in the world that eats its iconic fauna.
Much like the reindeer on offer here in Finland!! They even serve it on FinnAir!! Thanks for the pictures. I’d love to get out in a garden, but I fear soon the ground will be covered with white stuff!!
Ostritch sausages? Interesting. I had emu at a restaurant many years ago – and I do think that it was emu sausage, and it was really tasty. Have you had ostritch sausage, and did you like it?
I love the garden pictures. I may need to plant my garden in circles next year.