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Editorial What’s on

Eco, Organic, Sustainable...buzz words like these are markets & events
often used confusingly. For instance is a plastic substitute
‘bioplastic’ made from maize actually eco-friendly when Sunday 30th January – Market
day at Cresta Lodge, 10am - 6pm
a whole tract of Amazon forest was felled in order to Saturday 5th February – Farmers’
plant the maize? Behind the confusion these words Market at the Rugby Club, 10am - 3pm
bring, there is a meaning that really matters. To a gardener Sunday 27th February – Market
it is the preservation of the natural world so that we day at Cresta Lodge, 10am - 6pm
can continue to benefit from the food, medicine, and Saturday 5th March – Farmers’
beauty that plants bring to our life on this planet. Market at the Rugby Club, 10am - 3pm
Saturday 12th & 19th March –
This issue focuses on the green side of gardening. This Introduction to Organic Gardening
can be by using indigenous species in the garden that /Farming Workshop, 9am - 1pm
are better adapted to the local climate and are food
plants for bees, insects or mammals. Or by limiting Land Events: Art Exhibition on
9th April @ the Land - contact
pesticide use and not blitzing all the beneficial bugs Nancy (pg 54)
from our gardens. And perhaps changing to
products that are biodegradable so that we make Zoom Meetings: Plant conservation
compost rather than producing waste. project 12th February - 75435290
The plant world gives us so much and by being an Francistown, & Palapye
eco-friendly gardener you are giving something back. Contact: Jenny -jsm@btcmail.co.bw
Contact: Lynn -
We’d like to launch a conservation project through plcfreeman@gmail.com
the magazine, which focuses on finding out which
populations of indigenous plants are vulnerable
or declining. If you want to find out more or get Win!!
involved please check out our website. S.C Gardens Botswana
www.gardensbotswana.wordpress/plant-surveys membership
Send in your Eco
Publisher: SC Gardens tips - see pg 44
Printer: Digital
Managing Editor: S.Coleman
Contributors: Sanitas, Julia Farmer, Harold Hester, Ian White, Nancy Horenburg,
Miriam Delorie, Petra Strydom, Bettina Kelly, Karin Duthie, Lisa Rautenbach,
Lynn Freeman, Jenny Arnold and Fiona Mordaunt
Subscriptions: Email gardensbotswana@gmail.com to be added to the mailing list

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All photographic contributions by S.C. unless attributed to other sources or contributors.
The views of the authors do not necessarily reflect those of the publishers.