aka Ishtar News
This weekend will be truly Scandinavian tempoed, because my sister is coming on Tuesday (for a five week long visit!) and there are a couple of things I really want to have done by then. One project, that I’ve been keeping to these past siestas, has been to paint the pool borders white, but once […]
Where were you, twenty years ago?
This very day, twenty years ago, I was visiting the field station with my family to see the development of the new mud buildings that Eden was setting up in Dalli, 13 km south of Tanout city.
Although the buildings themselves were nice, the field station did not make that much […]
Having been reminded quite frequently lately of the existence of the Club Privée de Zinder, I finally decided to join again. As it turned out it’s not that expensive for us volunteers, which was good, or I wouldn’t have been able to!
The water was a bit thick and slightly green, but once I slipped into […]
There’s been a few changes going on at Isthar’s Ark, and I’m loving the feel of the inner walls, which are being sprayed with the red Nigerien soil.
The plants look even greener then they did before with this new background, and the view from our veranda is fabulous!
Our little kiddie pool is without a doubt […]
When I had my Jamaican neighbor over for a ‘famine food’ recipe last week, she thought the Boscia senegalensis was really good, and that it tasted a bit like peas. It was her idea to serve it like a vegetable, so today I had her over for a fabulous-looking new dish, namely the Hanza sallad! […]
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The Eden farmers and their families mix the cooked Maerua crassifolia leaves with crushed peanuts, decorate with an onion and sell it in the village. There is a lot of money to be made this way, because the meal is good!
And so when making one of the two casseroles I was going to […]
From a world market perspective - where the global spotlight stays focused on a handful of species that still produce the majority of the food despite the fact that there is a total of 78,000 edible species available in the world (an untapped resource for the upcoming ‘world food crisis’) - it would not be […]
I had a great weekend, having two long rides in the bush (unfortunately, the last one ended up with my borrowing my horse and Arwen getting limp again, so I may not be out for a ride in while…) and catching up on some much needed sleep.
On Friday evening, Tabita came on and stayed the […]
I’ve been suffering from sudden cravings lately. Things I haven’t been thinking about for ages (mostly sweet items that could accompany my beloved coffee but which I can neither access nor produce on my own at my current geographical location) pop up in my mind at all times of the day. It must be the […]
Mr Sponheim of the Solar Cooker Archive Wiki contacted me a while back ago, and wanted me to post a profile on their site. We talked over email about solar cooker issues and he was suprised when I told him we’d bought some of our solar cookers from a local NGO in town.
Well, the NGO […]
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