Friday 28 April 2017

The Soft Foot Homestead


 You might have noticed I have slightly changed the blog title as although I'm still working on natural building projects, I will be sharing other aspects of our simple, sustainable and improved lifestyle to inspire you. From simple ways of making life more efficient with as little impact on the planet, to vegetarian and vegan recipes using local ingredients from the african bush.

Here is a quick catch up on the past couple of years living in The Soft Foot Homestead (thats a hint as to one of the things we have been up to this past year) We have been busy setting up The Soft Foot Alliance using our experience and passion to finding and applying simple ways for humans and wildlife to live side by side.

The addition of an adobe/ bottle wall on the verandah
The animal adventures continue, a very friendly elephant has a closer smell of the car.

Rocket stoves have taken off after much interest from our neighbors training began in 2016







3 workshops so far with between 15-20 women making their own stoves with local clay and manure. 

After a visit from my father he made me a new washing machine, works pretty well!!

one of the new members of the family 'Futchie' short for 'future kitty'
The death of Bill Mollison is a huge loss for the world, but his vision and work lives on and we work daily to see that happen.
Insaba has grown into her name, 'ray of sunlight' after one of my favorite lioness's, she looks more and more like a lion!!


One of the aspects of our work now as THE SOFT FOOT ALLIANCE is finding simple solutions for people and wildife to live side by side. Here Brent and Oliver help to put up a boma that protects livestock from lions, just the fact that they can't see means they won't go inside, plus the boma is mobile so is used to fertilize fields. Just one of the exciting things we have been working on www.softfootalliance.com


Just one of the fruits from zone 5 the largest zone on our place, preserving the indigenous forest, chanterelle mushrooms


home grown Jalapenos 

more and more goodies growing in our place



Cooking rosella(hibiscus) for dinner

Rosella pancake with chilli sauce. 
homegrown cowpeas are our major protein source. 

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  1. Seems like you people have lots of fun there, food also look good. Thank you for sharing your post and keep posting such posts

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  2. It looks really good, always good to spend time in areas like this. You people did good job and look at the food, it looks delicious. Thanks for sharing it with us

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  3. Hi.
    You did an amazing job with your homestead, working with all the obstacles to still fit your needs! I would like to make my little home in Thailand where I’m facing some of the same issues (aka termites! And hot weather but with more rain...) and I would love to hear some update about how the house is doing few years after, or some more details about some things you made... I actually have tons of question after reading your articles!!

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    1. Hello, thank you for the message, I have just updated the blog. The house works very well with the metal termite barrier and lots of overhang on the roof for the rain, have a look and let me know if you have any more questions

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