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WASTE USES AND MANAGEMENT- How serious are you?

Did you know that The Sands at Nomad has a 'Green Team' dedicated to managing the impact of the Hotel and Restaurant. Their days are made up of Waste Management and record keeping, Beach and Road clean-ups, HDPE waste Plastic shredding, making…

ORGANIC FARMING- Natural Pest controllers and methods.

In natural farms and environments one can expect to find a lot of diverse insect life both inside the soil and above it in the air and on plants. Together all of these various insects (and all other life in the 'web') each on their own little…

ORGANIC FARMING- November week 1(The onset of the rains)

In the last week we have been preparing for the rain that we hope is coming, we used the few showers we have had to get some beds lightly tilled and composted before planting out another round of seeds and seedlings. in the Photo below are some…

ORGANIC FARMING- READYING FOR THE RAINS

We harvest daily with some emphasis over busy weekends For the majority of people trying to farm the rainy seasons are when one plants the seeds carefully stored over the hot, dry spells. Not many have access to boreholes…

SOME OF THE ONGOING PROJECTS THIS WEEK

These past two weeks at The Sands at Nomad have been full of action on the sustainability front. Building projects repurposing glass bottles into building blocks have been started at the Marine Education Centre where a sustainability exhibition…

MANAGING WASTE – Meat (Proteins), Starch, Carbohydrates

Well here we are, after three years of learning about correct sustainable waste management, we are finally getting to a stage where we can be proud of our progress here at The Sands at Nomad, The Nomad Beach Bar and Diving the Crab. One of the…

ANOTHER GOOD REASON TO MAKE COMPOST FROM ORGANIC WASTE- Larvae Farming

If you have been reading this blog you will know the reason why we at the Nomad farm collect up all the fruit and vegetables (organic) waste from the Hotel and Restaurant.. It is so that we can be producing our own Organic fertiliser in the…

MANAGING YOUR WASTE – AN ESSENTIAL STEP TO SUSTAINABLE THINKING AND PRACTICE

Years of daily waste production records Do you know that The Sands at Nomad has a waste separation and management system for all the different types of waste? This is because we understand and take our impact on our environment…

TOWARDS ENERGY EFFICIENCY – SOLAR LIGHTING

The word SUSTAINABLE encompases the word EFFICIENT as, something that is Sustainable is that way because it is efficent. An inefficient way of doing things is not sustainable. If you are spending too much time, money and energy on something…

MAKING OUR OWN DRINKING GLASSES, SAUCERS AND MORE

As some of you may know, the Sand's sustinability department is responsible for making all the drinking glasses for The Sands at Nomad in Diani as well as the Sands at Chale. This Blog is about how we do it. Glass bottles considered useful…

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