Isondlo Management Services

24/06/2012

Let us take care of our roads -call for your support

We believe that safer, friendlier roads start with us and that is why tens of thousands of our employees have taken the I-Pledge as a personal and collective commitment to being better road users.

22/01/2012

Why we should have gardens in our homes?

Gardening offers family fun. In a garden, you can be active, relax, and spend time together. Growing vegetables or herbs teaches children that plants, like people, need food and water to grow and stay healthy. Caring for plants helps develop responsibility. It also builds self-esteem when kids see what they can grow.

A garden can teach your child about new foods. Kids usually taste what they grow!

My goal in farming is to be able to provide quality food, offering the freshest most-nutritious produce available, all the while improving efficiency to make good food. Dark brown, fragrant humus-that is the goal of every gardener who follows the rules of nature. Such a dream soil is loose, warm, moist, and rich in nutrients. Vegetables, fruits, and flowers thrive in it almost without outside help. Whoever wants to get his or her hands on the fundamentals of organic gardening need only turn to nature for these lessons.

This is the challenge I pose to all my friends!!! I have very a nice garden and I offer advice and service to all city dwellers whom wants to own their fresh vegetable in the back yard. Ask for a qoute!!!

22/01/2012

Rhubarb Sauce - this rhubarb recipes makes a great sauce perfect for drizzling over any dessert
4 cups rhubarb, chopped
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 tablespoon honey
3/4 cup water
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
Place all ingredients in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil. Cover and reduce heat. Let simmer for 20-30 minutes, or until rhubarb has become very soft. Remove from heat and let cool. Store in refrigerator.
This sauce can be used to top ice cream, cheesecake, fresh fruit, pound cake, etc... If a smoother sauce is desired, it can be pureed with a blender or food processor.

16/01/2012

Experimentation and selection of new crops and manners of land use has to come mostly from the farmers and the private sector. Entrepreneurship is the key to discovering one’s own abilities. There is nothing about smallness that implies that farmers have to be big to be good entrepreneurs.

16/01/2012

The question of land tenure is perhaps the most emotive of all issues affecting agriculture. While in the medium - to long-term there is a critical need for this to be addressed equitably, productively and sustainably there is, in the short-term, a critical need for pragmatic, albeit transitional, solutions. Simply put, appropriate land must be made available for effective production which leads to immediate food security and job creation and medium-term sustainable economic growth.

16/01/2012

Prosperous agriculture requires letting go with tradition

•It is very human to approach certain topics – agriculture happens to be a very good example – with love for tradition and fear of change.
•Nothing more primal than the desire to do the oldest economic activity in the traditional way.
•Agriculture as it has always been implies giving up too many opportunities. Africa must embrace change in many areas including, if necessary, the way it farms its land. This is politically difficult and painful, but must be accepted.
•There is a social cost of transition that justifies for change to be slow and with plenty of support from government. It does not justify not doing the change. The social cost of keeping things as they are is also immense.