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Clara du Plessis
May 20, 20231 min read
About those stakes...
Looking back over the last few weeks the days are marked with red, white and yellow stakes that mark the layout of our food forest. We...
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Clara du Plessis
Apr 10, 20234 min read
Helping Hands And Victories
In this entry we will be looking at the last two weeks of March. Different people assisted us, and strategic victories took place. First,...
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Clara du Plessis
Apr 2, 20232 min read
About the stakes...
The 27th of March we had time set aside on "This Land" to walk and pray and we also paused to worship. The significance of this morning...
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Clara du Plessis
Mar 25, 20235 min read
Work week 2023
Global Challenge One Year team. In this post we will be looking back at a termed workweek in which the Global Challenge team worked with...
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Clara du Plessis
Mar 25, 20231 min read
Time to stake the ground
These men; from the left (Matthew, David, Andre, Barend, Ronnie and Andrew) helped us cut and prepare 3 meter sticks that we will cut...
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Clara du Plessis
Feb 21, 20231 min read
Work Week 2023
Global Challenge One Year working for water!
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Clara du Plessis
Feb 10, 20231 min read
We hosted the first relay swim!
Wow what a fantastic way to start 2023, a relay swim; teachers against students!!
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Clara du Plessis
Dec 8, 20221 min read
Propagation chapter 2
A few month ago I learned how to propagate trees through a process called Air layering. Air layering is a method of propagating new...
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Clara du Plessis
Dec 2, 20221 min read
First...
First Fabulous Figs! Look at how beautiful the coloring is on these Figs definitely the first time I see Figs like this. First...
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Clara du Plessis
Nov 29, 20221 min read
A Forest on the move
We managed to plant all the saplings this week and moved them to the garden where they will settle and grow in size. We have varieties...
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Clara du Plessis
Nov 29, 20221 min read
Team work is dream work
The Global Challenge One year students arrived back in Jbay after a epic journey around the world with one mission - to obey Jesus. They...
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Clara du Plessis
Nov 12, 20221 min read
A friend with a Forest
Our adventure to Nature's Valley was the highlight of my week. Nature's Valley lies between the Salt River, the foothills of the...
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Clara du Plessis
Nov 11, 20221 min read
Two Tomatoes more 🍅
It was a week filled with tomatoes, two people being equipped to go and beautiful flowers. We planted 4 beds of tomatoes this week to...
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Clara du Plessis
Nov 4, 20221 min read
Effortless
We are prepping for our next compost project and managed to find a very quick and affective way to load cow manure from our neighbors ...
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Clara du Plessis
Oct 28, 20221 min read
Fencing
The sport of fighting with swords, according to a set of rules, in order to score points against an opponent. I had my sword out against...
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Clara du Plessis
Oct 21, 20221 min read
Getting it done
We harvested our salad and beetroot today! This week's to-do-list was challenging but we managed to plant, move ground and cover ground....
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Clara du Plessis
Oct 17, 20221 min read
Celebrating seed
A few weeks ago I harvested these Peach Coral seeds and today I bagged my first trees. They are ready to leave the nursery and now they...
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Clara du Plessis
Oct 15, 20221 min read
Fabulous fig trees
These are some of the trees we received as a gift from Mac Jordaan from the farm Waterval in the Western Cape. There are about 6...
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Clara du Plessis
Oct 2, 20222 min read
Last but not least
We had the privileged to spend two hours with Fiona Powrie. Fiona is a horticulturist and an indigenous plant consultant. She worked at...
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Clara du Plessis
Oct 1, 20222 min read
Kids and colleagues
With the children with us we headed out with the promise to take them to swim at Goudini Spa. Linel had been to Bosjes and said the...
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