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OPENING THE BEACH BAR DURING CORONA – A ECONOMICAL WAY TO BE HYGIENIC AND COMPLIANT

It goes without saying the impact of this whole Corona thing has been seriously felt all over the world. Shut down travel, industries and services closed, jobs lost and this may still get worse as we see second and third waves hitting already…

‘WASTE NOT..WANT NOT’- USE THE EDGES AND OFFCUTS

When you are working on daily living or a building or maintenance project there is often times when you will find leftover bits of material, when the project is over much of this material is thrown away as part of the final clean up. How often…

GLASS BOTTLES – WAYS OF REPURPOSING AND COST SAVING

The light up gate made using 'waste' glass bottles Here on Diani Beach, because we are an award winning holiday destination, it goes without saying that a LOT of empty wines and spirits bottles are produced by the hotels,…

ORGANIC FARMNG – UPDATE FROM THE SAND’S FARM AND SOME PEST CONTROL INFO

It is now, at the end of the rains, as the sun shines and the farm has been growing well for months that the greatest fight with pests is. Assorted Veggies going to the restaurant this morning. 23 June 2020 On an Organic…

ORGANIC FARMING- SUCCESS

After much talk about all the ways to go about farming organically or trying to live sustainably it's only right that some photos of evidence that these techniques have worked for us are shared. Given we are at a time of abundance on The Sands…

ORGANIC FARMING- USE STANDING WATER TO ‘BREED’ DRAGONFLIES

WAS- A Drinks fridge at The Sands at Nomad Beach Bar NOW- Fish breeding, Dragonfly and Frog breeding. (Noisy 'Guttural Toads' can't get into this) As we have mentioned before in this Blog Dragonflies are one of the useful…

ORGANIC FARMING- USE OF SPACE, COMPOST PILES AS NURSERIES

Over the last two months the good rain has meant that we have been able to get a good success out of growing greens on the Sand's Organic farm. The fresh water makes a huge difference for us and the community around us as, as it was noted in…

LIFE DURING THE CORONA LOCKDOWN – HOW BEING SUSTAINABLE CAN HELP

    Over these past two months of Covid 19 caused lockdown there has been a huge impact on everyone from individuals to large hotels, restaurants, companies and governments. There is no money coming in but people still need to…

ORGANIC FARMING- PESTS – Millipedes, Friend and Foe

If you are following this blog then you will already know about the compost making process that we use on the Sands at Nomad's farm. Recently however we have identified quite a serious problem that we were actually encouraging due to our…

REPURPOSING- The multiple uses of things

We have touched on this subject a number of times in the past years so this post will just be adding some other ideas to the concept of being able to repurpose things rather than make them 'waste' and a problem for the environments, both natural…

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