food

Fermented foods are great tools for growing your gut microbiome and Mageu is a simple food that can be prepared in your own home without any previous experience. In this video, I detail the process we use to make the African fermented porridge called Mageu. I drink mixtures of this daily with or without fruit. My Zulu mom Besta taught me how to make it and my other half wrote a poem about it.

It was after the crazy egg hunting days of easter that we decided to get some chickens. Besta (my Zulu mom and teacher) generously gave us some of her flock to start our own family. I made a small chicken tractor (1.5 x 3 m) using scrap wood I collected from an old chicken coop. The basic idea was to test the model being used by Joel Salatin in my own context. I wanted to find out what it would take to run these birds on the farm in an attempt to improve the soil health through animal impact. Chickens are a great way to reintroduce life back into the soil, something I hope to be able to trail at the farm scale in the near future. Having these chickens stirs around some moral and ethical scenarios and I have been trying to answer these questions for myself.