Monthly Archives: January 2016
I have not posted step by step what Ive been up to due to no internet access and very little cash, with no income since my last posting. Someone once told me that when you are on an island alone and a storm is coming you first consider shelter, then water then food. Being in a city now its a given, even with water restrictions, that water is not scarce enough to be concerned with and I trade and balance out with cash where I sleep most of the time… my concern was food.
A friend of mine is involved in a soup kitchen project and has an agreement (now being reviewed 2016) that some of the almost expired and expired goods from a fruit and veg store can be taken and distributed off the grounds of the business. I joined in on the dumpster diving thinking an exchange of waste to bokashi for the compost and the runoff for fertilizer or drain cleaner was lucrative enough, but food was my main concern. I watched people in the streets and parks and at the rivers as I walked, wondering how many needed a banana or apple or just some kind of smile 
I agreed to distribute some food waste in my area. This is what we gathered in less than an hour … very greatfully
This is how I made my bokashi – using almost fermenting fruits and breads. I particularly loved walking around the block with a giant polystyrene container and backpack of cakes and sandwiches to give away.
On another occasion, I made a poster and displayed it in the park with food for anyone to take home and eat. This particular store cut us off from the dumpster area a few weeks before Christmas, leaving approximately 180 people wondering where the soup is. They want to recycle the food waste now and sell it, honestly I think there is way to much and it is way too costly a process, even on such a scale to make any profit. Our earth needs some bokashi, our people need food but one 150kg drum is costly and there is alot of waste in one skip. If you have any ideas please contact me 072 146 9017
I think that people should re-evaluate their morality or system or value or perception of value. just love each other as in see the need fill the need if you can, and if not acknowledge that you know that need… it connects us all despite our lifestyles. I think that doing this creates a force of love, a sense of community returns, crime decreases…. why dont people working in these stores take the waste home and give it away on the way home? why doesn’t anyone bother to make a buffet in the park with the veggies in the compost instead? why look away at the waste and at the man at the traffic lights with the sign asking for mercy in so many ways? where is humanity’s humane nature lost?
I had no money, few people and no hope of income other than some artwork at a street vendor in the city and I am still here lol love is a great force embrace it. Money and a lifestyle is a choice – make it.
Its time for me to make some awesome tea again too… please keep an eye on the Art of Tea page too.