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The Van Stadens Forum met at the Reserve today. It eats into our working time but well worth it to keep contact with our neighbours and interested parties. We delivered the refurbished benches to the school. It took a while because all the pupils in the class insisted on shaking my hand and giving Ellie

Our fist meeting of the year midway February. As turnouts go it was quite good but a new worrying trend is developing. Some people are quite happy to attend but are not working so the few willing horses are rather overburdened. On top of that little interest in what has so far been done nor

The usual trailer full of plants got taken but before we could organize the shade house we first needed to install an extra irrigation pipe in the “lean-to” section. This was duly done, complete with 180 degree nozzles so now we can utilize the full shade house and, more importantly, group like plants together. It

…and a bit of singing as well to keep the spirits up. We knew there was a 100% chance of rain but we decided to brave it anyway as it was the only opportunity to go out this week. Had a chat to Goodman and Speelman, good to see they are enthusiastic again, the tractor

Keith’s shifts worked out for a change so we had a full Wednesday contingent today, all five of us! We happened to arrive at the same time, this means we were early and the hacking contingent disappeared to do some steep slope work. Ellie wanted to finish her varnishing so she first went and scrubbed

Goodman told us recently that there is a population of Paranomus on the western Van Stadens mountain range just across the railway bridge, So off we went on a bright and hot Sunday morning to check out the lay of the land. Crossing the railway bridge is always fun and the river bed below with

A while ago I muttered about all the rain we had, justified as it turns out as 2015 was the wettest in the past five years, but now it is time to complain about the lack of rain and the hot spell we are enduring. Luckily most of the work we planned was either in

The year is truly underway again and we are back to the Wednesday routine. While the hacking team of Rob and Cathy did their pre-tea hakea and other nasties clearing and discussing the new alien which is not an alien, the Widdringtonia nodiflora, I got stuck into weeding the shade house while Ellie went to

Our first working Wednesday of the new year, first priority was of course to sort the sprinklers out so we won’t have any more dead “bodies” in the nursery due to lack of water in this heat wave we have at the moment. Hugs and greetings on arrival, Speelman was so happy to see us