New GreenHome clients, the Carvery Cowboys, have burst onto the outdoor catering scene in Johannesburg with their mobile, slow roasted (as in 22 hours) free-range beef (but they can also do pork and lamb) carvery. Specializing in outdoor events they can serve over 500 tasty meals, so it is fantastic that they have not only…
Wow, check out this ingenious recycling of our biodegradable tub’s and spoon’s at the Mud Gallery in Barrydale. Green Home’s biodegradable sugarcane tubs, with seedlings in them, covered in clay for planting directly into the ground, with the price written on the spoon. Brilliant!
YUM YUM… Green Home’s 100% biodegradable food packaging in use at POST in Braamfontein. Post is an eatery with an ethos of re-use and restoration using reclaimed timber, steel and glass in its design and construction, and serving locally sourced, seasonal, immediately prepared foods.
Despite a global outcry over genetically modified (GM) crops, South Africa continues to be a dumping ground for GM crops (and their products) which periodically cripple small scale farmers ability to survive, give big pharmaceutical companies even greater control of our food diversity and have potential health implications which are still unknown due to lack…
“It took author Susan Freinkel all of ten seconds to realise the absurdity of her decision to go plastic free for one day. When she switched to recording every item of plastic she touched, she filled a 28cm by 19cm page within 45 minutes. By the end of the day Freinkel had filled four pages,…
Plastic is everywhere: our oceans, our beaches, our forests, our deserts, our cities, our homes and our bodies. Anywhere you go, you are bound to bump into a piece of plastic. Contrary to what the plastics industry would like us to believe, science continues to prove that endocrine disrupting chemicals used in the production process…
Our oceans have become our ‘landfills’. They are known to contain the majority of mankind’s waste, and the largest component of oceanic pollution is disposable plastic. Conservative estimates suggest that there are 140 billion kilograms of plastic in the ocean. The well documented Great Pacific Garbage Patch is just one of 5 such ‘gyres’ where…
