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Walked up the little koppie out our back garden this evening. Beautiful view. Not such beautiful flies and mosquitoes 😂🤦🏾‍♀️ #canthaveitall
Any bug experts out there? What is this thing called? Seen as I’m learning the names of birds I may as well learn the bugs too 🤷🏾‍♀️
No bin collection day where we live so even more important to be careful with the waste we create. Currently, all our paper, card and food waste is buried in mini pits in an area that will then be turned into a vegetable bed. We bought a tub of worms from EcoBiz in Lusaka to kick start the process, but you don’t have to do that. The worms and bugs just come. I don’t do wormeries - too much faff for me. I dig a hole, well, Moses digs a hole, then he spreads the food waste in a layer no more than an inch thick then covers with an inch layer of soil. We continue like this until the hole is full. Once it’s full, he starts a new hole next door. Before I had the space I did exactly they same concept, but in a large black tub with a lid and holes drilled in the base, and some holes drilled along the rim at the top to allow air in. I would layer till it was full and move on to a second tub. After about a month or two I would then start using the broken down waste in the garden. No mess, no smell, easy peasy. You don’t need to worry about separating onions and citrus etc. Just chuck it all in. I’m currently collecting our glass, tins, and hard and soft plastic and polystyrene separately. I will then find ways to reuse and what I can’t reuse I can take to a recycling point next time I’m passing somewhere in Lusaka. Thinking of making some ottoman style stools with ecobricks which I can sew removable covers for. 🤔 #composting #zerowastejourney #reuse
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Bird nerd alert || Just seen the African Purple Swamphen. We have wanted to see this bird for SO long! 💪🏿
Location - Papa 3. Sundowners - Mosi & G&T Lifer - White Browed Coucal.

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