Yes, there is a colloquial name for this fruit? Vegetable? But you must know your audience before you use it. I shall stick to Maketaan. It does not matter really; it is still delicious. What is pertinent, is that in all my homestead/farm visits, there was always a jar of this preserve on the table, …
Category Archives: Living off the Land
Keeping up with the Jones’
Do you always compare yourself to others? That was the question I asked myself, which I should have asked the person (or anonymous group of persons) presenting me with a challenge this week. It related to why someone else (or another anonymous group of persons) did not have to go through the same hurdles as …
Truffle your !nabba
Kalahari Gold – Nuggets of goodness out of the red sand. Where to find them (like I’ll tell) and how to prepare them.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Welcome back to me, by me. I have not written in weeks. And you can tell by the way this blank page is intimidating me. But the words, and their subtleties are vying to get out. So, I must persist. Why I have not written is a mundane, yet lofty reason. Mundane because I was …
Cuppa tea Dicky?
In between the day job in the city, the evening job of studying (again!) and the governance jobs during the week, I’m trying to find ways to make living off the land work in today’s society.