plans and dreams and invitations to work with me
I'd like to start an ecovillage in the city of Cape Town (not really a village person), and live with friends and family on a large beautiful plot of land in a zozo hut cladded with recycled wood, bamboo and with solar power, compost toilets, greywater beds, aquaponics, the works.
I would like someone to take on Maitland Cemetry and turn it into the most beautiful garden in Cape Town, and I'd love to be involved. It could be a real people's garden, keeping the graves of course, like the beautiful cemetries in America, where people could walk, ride, cycle, down a large central avenue with a view of Devil's peak. There could be a bicycle lane connecting with Mayor De Lille's river restoration project via green lanes through all the (%$#) golf courses, and past the Nieuwe Molen in Ndabeni, across the Black and Liesbeek Rivers on those little bridges that are already there, but to which access is forbidden, past the flamingoes, connecting with the Liesbeek River trail and bicycle routes. Though I don't agree with how they cut off customer parking to all the shops in Malta Road, hitting the shopkeepers most in need of passing feet.
I plan on cultivating olive cuttings this year as the tree in Goodwood is one of the best bearers I've ever heard of. When I have about 1000 cuttings that have taken I'm donating them to a food security project on the Cape Flats to use as wind hedges, and simultaneously to create the biggest urban olive grove in the world, and create jobs. 20 trees = 1 job, according to my calculations.
I would like someone to take on Maitland Cemetry and turn it into the most beautiful garden in Cape Town, and I'd love to be involved. It could be a real people's garden, keeping the graves of course, like the beautiful cemetries in America, where people could walk, ride, cycle, down a large central avenue with a view of Devil's peak. There could be a bicycle lane connecting with Mayor De Lille's river restoration project via green lanes through all the (%$#) golf courses, and past the Nieuwe Molen in Ndabeni, across the Black and Liesbeek Rivers on those little bridges that are already there, but to which access is forbidden, past the flamingoes, connecting with the Liesbeek River trail and bicycle routes. Though I don't agree with how they cut off customer parking to all the shops in Malta Road, hitting the shopkeepers most in need of passing feet.
I plan on cultivating olive cuttings this year as the tree in Goodwood is one of the best bearers I've ever heard of. When I have about 1000 cuttings that have taken I'm donating them to a food security project on the Cape Flats to use as wind hedges, and simultaneously to create the biggest urban olive grove in the world, and create jobs. 20 trees = 1 job, according to my calculations.