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which has a history of positive action in the fight against malnutrition in South Africa.
The first stop of my March 2021 road trip was Montagu, about two and a bit hours from Cape Town, depending on the stop/go roadworks which have been there since oh, about 2015. The delay is perfect if you’re in the market for a giant tennis ball or feather duster or one of those silver things for the windscreen of your car. I’d invited myself to Homestead Serendipity to find out more about the charcuterie being made there.
This was after I’d seen a Facebook post by Richard Bosman, who teaches charcuterie courses, and had been to visit. Kevin Katzke is a graduate of one such course, and with his wife Kim moved to Montagu permanently at the end of 2019. Here he experiments and cures and smokes and creates all sorts of interesting things, not only from the pigs and ducks they farm on site, but from game and other meats, using ingredients like olives, pink peppercorns and citrus from the t
April 1, 2021
Aquatecture, new rain harvesting panels at the V&A Waterfront
THE V&A Waterfront will be among the first companies in South Africa to test a highly innovative new design in rainwater harvesting technology.
The Aquatecture rain harvesting panel collects water by diverting raindrops flowing over the perforations on the surface to the inside of the system. From there the water trickles down into a collection tank where it can either be stored for later use, or can be pumped back into a building’s grey water system.
The panel is also currently being developed to harvest moisture from the atmosphere.