@muthimuthi.bsky.social
Activist, Humanist, Anarchist, Anti-authoritarian, Anti-fascist, Anti-racist, Environmentalist, Rationalist, Empiricist...🇿🇦 Digital empowerment coach. Involved with communications, IT and cybersecurity work. Love the bush, dogs, music and reading.
Mxolisi Ngwenya receives his prize Mango tree from Patrick Twala at the gathering at Julius Mkhonto.
A competition at Julius Mkhonto was won by Mxolisi Ngwenya, a young farmer in the making. He received a Mango tree, a chance to harvest honey in Patrick Twala’s garden and to pick traditional maize when it is harvesting time.
#agroecology #seeds
Participants at the reflective dialogues at Julius Mkhonto
1 December 2025: Enkaba, Avontuur and Julius Mkhonto communities gathered in Julius Mkhonto, Mpumalanga, to hold their annual reflections about their ongoing journey of reviving traditional seeds, associated rituals and learning about agroecology.
#agroecology #seeds
A First for Enkaba: Hosting EarthLore’s Seed Fair in South Africa in 2025
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#agroecology #seeds
An interesting process of connecting communities with their ancestral knowledge.
#agroecology #seed #Zimbabwe
This Black Earth podcast celebrates Mashudu Takalani, EarthLore's programme manager, a Black African woman leading transformation by restoring life on our beautiful planet in a meaningful, care-full and joyful way.
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#agroecology #seed #Africa
Earthlore champions millet revival: Documentary by Steve Ephraem.
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#agroecology
#BikitaFair #SeedDiversity #FoodSovereignty #Zimbabwe #EarthLore
Reviving Tradition for Future Abundance: Earth Jurisprudence Collective
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#agroecology #SeedDiversity
287 farmers drawn from 6 communities that EarthLore is accompanying showcase diverse farm saved seeds during a Seed and Food Fair held in Masasire, Bikita, Zimbabwe
#foodsovereignity #agroecology #zimbabwe
Annual Bikita Seed and Food Fair
Celebrating tradition and growth! The Annual Bikita Seed and Food Fair is on Aug 22, 2025, in Masasire's Kumboedza garden (9h00-17h00). This year's theme: "Growing our Future, Rooted in our Traditions." See nearly 300 displays of farm-saved seeds, produce, & crafts.
Exciting to see our study featured in Neuroscience News!
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“Seeds hold great cultural significance by representing new beginnings and the promise of generous harvests." Mashudu Takalani of Earthlore.
#agroecology #seeds #rituals #Africa
The First Fruits Ceremony is performed by most indigenous communities in Southern Africa. This article describes the First Uluma ceremony performed by the Venda people in #southafrica
#agroecology #rituals #africa
The Earthlore Foundation has been working with communities in the Elukwatini area in Mpumalanga, South Africa, to help revive traditional farming practices.
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Earthlore Foundation @earthlore-f.bsky.social partners with communities in Southern Africa to cohere around rejuvenated bonds and kinship linked to their own knowledge systems and traditions that are respectful to the larger community of life.
#agroecology
I'll look into it
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An inspirational short post by a young farmer, Patrick Thwala, from Elukwatini, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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#agroecology #bees #trees
Nest of white fronted plover (Charadrius marginatus) on beach. These birds are vulnerable to disturbance by humans and dogs on my beach but people don't seem to care. So it goes. The numbers of these birds have recovered slightly since driving was banned on beaches in South Africa.
Three African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) off beach in SW Cape Town. These are the most endangered penguins with <20k remaining, down from 2m in 1900 & dropping fast. Could be extinct in 10-20 years. Oil, overfishing are main risks.
#birds #endageredspecies #extinction is forever.
This article covers the difficulties human rights and environmental activists face in KZN when opposing the depredations of mining interests.
#LawApplies2All #tendele #somkhele
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A herd of giraffe
Something to brighten up the day. Taken yesterday at Bisley Nature Reserve, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
#wildlife #nature #southafrica
The mine holds its employees hostage by threatening their jobs if activists try and hold the mine to account.
#mining #wilderness
Here we have part of a monster devouring all in it's path. This is the Tendele Coal mine, in Somkhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This is the iMfolozi River not far from the Wilderness area of the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park. Local communities have been displaced and the homes of many others threatened
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We always need to be optimistic. We will win through.
#drakensberg #rainbow
This is another fight against the mining monster.
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It's distressing to read how China plans to destroy forest and #baobab trees in Limpopo, to do open cast mining. We shall protest hard, to try and stop this madness. Please help anyway you can.
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A mountain with a stormy sky and glistening wet rocks
Another one of my beloved #drakensberg. This time at Garden Castle. What I would give to be out there right now.
#southafrica #mountains #wilderness
A river with a snow covered mountain in the Drakensberg, South Africa.
Thought I would share this photo of my favourite place. Cobham, Drakensberg mountains, #southafrica
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