Growing Mondays: The stars are bright

The light is changing

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Jo Hunter Adams
February 24, 2025

Hi! I'm Jo, writing from Heart & Soil homestead, a 1-acre homestead in the Far South of Cape Town, South Africa. Every week I share inspiration and education for your growing journey. Thanks so much for reading!

Welcome to Growing Mondays, where I share ideas to help you grow edible and medicinal plants.

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You can’t say to the spring: “Come now and last as long as possible. You can only say, come and bless me with your hope, and stay as long as you can”

Paolo Coelho

Bananananananana time

Notice the changes in the light

This morning I saw the stars, brighter than I’ve seen them in a long time. It might have been a result of the dark of loadshedding, but it also felt like the light is changing.

So even though it’s really hot, the shorter daylight hours are a sign of hope for us.

We are getting closer to planting next week. It still feels painfully hot, but I know that we can plant everything out, and that the new season is beginning for us.

It’s a good time to clear slowly if you’re in a hot dry climate, so that you can compost and renew the life in the soil.

Clearing yielded all these makatan

Workshops in March

8 March Veg growing workshop
29 March Food Forest Workshop

Green hummus. Time consuming (all that dehusking of chickpeas) but really really good.

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