🛣️Before you head off for the holidays…

King Price Insurance’s claims patterns for break-ins and robberies from 2021 to 2023 show a clear spike over the festive season – it might be Ke Dezemba but this is no time to neglect your home security measures. Wynand van Vuuren, client experience partner at King Price, offered these reminders for the festive season: 🔒Boost…

Unprecedented lawsuit against ultra-processed food companies — Big Food on trial

American citizen Bryce Martinez filed a lawsuit in December 2024, targeting the world’s biggest food companies for allegedly intentionally engineering food to be more addictive, including Coca-Cola, Kraft Heinz, and Nestlé. (Photos: Wikipedia) Adèle Sulcas – 13 December 2024 The evidence on the harmful effects of UPFs on human health has grown dramatically in recent…

Turning Cape Town’s vacant land into indigenous gardens

Ismail Johnson and Nora Unruh are seen at the new indigenous garden at Dryden Street Primary in Salt River. (Matthew Hirsch/GroundUp) Matthew Hirsch – 11 December 2024 Vacant plots of land in Cape Town are being turned into indigenous gardens thanks to a collaboration between South African organisations and a German work exchange programme. As…

Cherry On Top

Whence these delicious treats? PRUNUS avium, the main ancestor of the sweet cherries that are grown commercially worldwide, is native to parts of Europe, Turkey, Africa and Asia. PRUNUS cerasus is the ancestor of the sour cherries that are grown mainly for cooking, and it originated in Europe and southwest Asia… READ MORE

SEED INFORMATION

Common Name: BERY – PINEAPPLE GROUND CHERRY Scientific Name: Physalis peruviana Description Annual Eastern European cousin of the Mexican tomatillo. A short bushy spreading plant reaching a height of 30 – 45cm. Bears a small yellow ground cherry in a husk (the size of a cape gooseberry), with the sweet fruity flavor of a pineapple……