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Gumbi Hub
Food production
Nursery
Good for small plants
Seed Saving
Landrace
Growing beds
Ground beds
Sack Gardening
Raised beds
Keyhole Gardens
Trees
Uses
Shade
Nurse Plant
Fruit
Living Fence
Reduce Evaporation
Reduce exposed bare ground
Living Fence trees
Num Num Berries
Kei Apple
Spekboom
Food grown
Vegetables
Currently Grown
Tomatoes
Lettuce
Chillies
Okra
Spring onion
Basil
Beetroot
To be tried
Peanut
Cassava
Amaranth
Previously Grown
Not to be grown
Where does food come from?
Seed sources
TWK
Seeds for Africa
Seed saving?
Current External Inputs
Gromor potting soil
We need to use more local soil
Composting
Soil tests
Plant guilds
Seeds
TWK
Seeds for Africa
We need to get to a non external, locally supplied seedbank
Seed saving practises
Landrace
living seeds
Water
Can we become less reliant on municipal water?
Landrace
Water retention
Jojo tanks
Swale/ berms
Roof water diversion
Transpiration/evaporation reduction
Shade
Shade cloth
Nurse plants
increase infiltration
reduce runoff
Wildlands staff
Facilitators
Brain
Zethu
Teams
Vehicles
Nissan Np300
Current Inventory
Perishables
Growmore
Seedling trays
Office supplies
Desk
Chairs
Stationery
Rubbish bin
Non perishables
Jojo tanks x 2
Containers x 2
Seedling tunnel x 2
Tools
Energy storage
Water
Jojo Tanks
Swales and Berms
Ollas
Nutrients
Composting
Hot composting
Bokashi
Controlled heaps
Cold composting
Vermiculture
Compost heaps
Gas
Biodigester
Hub Goals
Short term
"Permaculture training"
Where
At the Hub
At home/community gardens
How
Through training days
When
Community engagement
Where
How
See social activities chain
When
Climate change awareness
Where
How
Citizen Days
When
Skills training
How
Formal programs
YES
Accredited training
Informal training
Hub days - see social activities chain
Establish what skills are already available in the community
How
Ask the leaders of the community
Have discussion sessions with the men and women of the community
Medium term
Food security
What is food security in relation to the hub
Does the hub provide food
What happens to crops grown at the hub
Does the hub provide support at household level
What capacity is the involvement
What are acceptable milestones
How much of your diet comes directly from your home garden?
Do you go hungry at any point of the month?
Using skills to develop the hub
Which skills?
Skills related to food security
What are we devoloping the hub into
A knowledge commons
Who's skills
Skills of community and team members
Climate smart lifestyle changes
What is a climate smart lifestyle?
Knowledge of environmental issues
Local
National
Global
Resource conservative approach
The want to make a net positive impact on your environment
How do we make these changes
Passive
Posters
booklets
active
refer to social activities
What is an acceptable milestone
Long term
Knowledge commons
What is the state of knowledge commons that we wish to achieve
Who make up the commons
Refer to stakeholders chain
Get people to create a system that they can change themselves
People must become aware of the larger picture
People must realise that their input is valuable
People must understand that they can adapt the "system" to their circumstances
What is the system going to look like
Social Activities
Continuous
Facilitators
YES
Events
Weekly / fortnightly
Maskandi Monday
Garden club
Annually
Youth Day
Low-energy reliant entertainment to consider
Reading
Cooking
Fermenting
Writing
Sewing
Drawing
Music making
Fixit hub
Ideas to play with
Chicken Hotel
Insect hotel
Hub Stakeholders
Local
Community members
Indunas
Candover
Induna 1
Induna 2
ECT
Reserves
Somkhanda
Schools
Primary
Vulemehlo
Cotlands
Secondary
Myekeni
Permaculture basic concepts
Holmgren
Observe and interact
Catch and store energy
Obtain a yield
Apply self regulation and feedback
Use and Value Renewables
Produce no Waste
7.Design From Patterns to Details
Integrate don't Segregate
Use slow small solutions
Use and value diversity
Use edges and value the marginal
Creatively use and respond to changes
Three ethics
Care for the planet
Care for the People
Fair share