GAIA Talks

A spontaneous storytelling circle with Mirabelle’s Forest Garden at Merit Blended Learning Academy where we were looking around for more spaces to plant trees and edible shrubs.
More kids showed up while I was sharing the story with one of the small ones that was too young to go to school when we first played with the story at this school in early 2019.
“ We want to hear the story too”,they said, and reminded me how great is to catch their little open hearts young with a green love for gardening and the earth.

MBLA is in Roma, Kalundu area. A great school whose director Ms Candy Marilyn Morrell is open to green minds and heart:)

And while many people would like to recycle in Lusaka but they excuse themselves that there are no options, voila.... Separation at Source exists as a business since 2018.

They work with businesses and schools to seprate trash in recyclables and they do the collection for a fee from which they substract a value offered on recyclable materials (yep, one needs to pay for garbage not burn it in the back yard. How can that be ok in a capital?).

The French school does this from 2019.
Schools cam.be a great entry point for childfen to educate their parents on this,and even bring their recyclables there.

Mr Misolo Sakala from Separation at Source guiding us bow to separate what we have correctly.
Call him up for becoming the next green at heart business or school:)

+260 95 5026827

It is also the first company we hear of that recycles soft wrapping plastic.

Great news!!!

Recycling is really everybody s responsibility

Back on the wild /cherry tomatoes, pest resistant varieties. Why is the market valuing obsessively the tomatoes that are big, hybrids of all sorts needing chemical spraying once a week?

This one is a self seeded tomato found in the Great grandmother's old plot, in our new Mirabelle's Forest Garden set up in Solo people tribal land off from Chongwe.

The place has been left in ruins by people many years ago but this plant stayed and continued to multiply year after year.

Cause that s how nature works and thinks. And it does not need so much help from chemical companies unless people think they Re smarter to go against it.

Why continue self inflicted poisoning with varieties of tomatoes that can only survive and produce with tons of chemicals sprayed on them?

our 8 year old Mirabelle would say something along the lines of... Cognitive dissonance.

You know what is bad for you but you still eat it, buy it, support it.

How about thinking things through better?

Putting our two pennies into education.

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