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Wilderness man
8 January 202014 January 2020 Janette Bennett

Wilderness man

Environment, People, Trees, Wild things, Wilderness

Connecting with a legend of conservation, Paul Dutton, at his Shangri-La It’s a big and blue day on the beach at Salt Rock on KwaZulu-Natal’s North Coast, the kind when the air shimmers and you can see right through the

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Evergreen joys
17 December 201917 December 2019 Janette Bennett

Evergreen joys

Environment, Handmade, Reinvention, Trees

Christmas, for me, is about being with people I care about. On the big Day, we gather to eat together, often under the milkwood trees, each contributing a favourite dish. And we always have a tree – never a plastic

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I’m planting trees. Are you?
5 December 20196 December 2019 Janette Bennett

I’m planting trees. Are you?

Environment, Technology, Trees, Work-life

Every single time I do an Internet search, I am planting trees. Yes, you read that correctly. And you might have noticed that I did not say, “Every time I Google.” That’s because I changed my Internet browser from Google

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In search of the lemonwoods
3 September 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

In search of the lemonwoods

Ambles, Eastern Cape, Trees, Wild things

Up. The thin path winds through the forest, up and up the mountain. And we keep going. V and I are searching for the grove of lemonwood trees that we’ve heard about. We’re not even sure that we are on

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Go native
23 August 20126 December 2019 Under the milkwood

Go native

Eastern Cape, Environment, Garden, Trees, Wild things

Down here in South Africa, especially along the coast, we seem to have a perpetual fixation with palm trees. I know, I know … we’re trying to evoke a sense of being on a tropical island. Or something. But it’s

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Familiar comfort
1 April 20126 December 2019 Under the milkwood

Familiar comfort

Eastern Cape, Garden, Life, Trees

The milkwood tree has been a constant in my life for as long as I remember. The trees grow prolifically in the coastal dune forests of the Wild Coast in the former Transkei “bantustan”, where I grew up. As we

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Here and now
27 March 20126 December 2019 Under the milkwood

Here and now

Garden, Life, Trees, Work-life

Not that long ago, I clawed and sweated my way along the corporate ladder. This was the done thing, so it seemed, and I worked hard to meet the goals that my society taught me were good. When I was

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