Go Food Gardening

Personal Goal Getting Workshop

When: Saturday 4 February 2012, 08h30 - 11h00
Where: D'Inyanga Lapa, Pretoria (just 10 minutes from the N1 Zambezi tollgate)
Cost: R95 per person
Booking is essential: contact Teresa on 082 416 7146 or at herbacademy@gmail.com
Presented by: The SA Herb Academy

"Learning how to set and achieve goals is the master skill for life - it allows you to gain many other skills and abilities." - Brian Mayne, author of Goal Mapping

Do you feel that you are you stuck on the road to nowhere?

Are you too busy to enjoy life?

Are you not getting the results you want?

"It has been proven, time and time again, that people who set goals achieve success while those who don't, generally achieve very little. Using personal goal setting can help you get clarity about what you want, set priorities, create a plan and attain results.

Even better, the process of identifying what we want in life helps us learn more about who we are. Our self-esteem, happiness and fulfilment grow as we clearly see ourselves moving forward in life. Success breeds success." - John and Patrice Robson

It's time to live life your way!

It is easy to get caught up in the busyness of life. To be out of balance. To not give priority to what truly matters to us.

But if we don't consciously choose how we spend our time, we lose it - to mundane tasks or to meeting other people's expectations. Our own dreams - the dreams that bring meaning to our lives - never see the light of day.

"Goals are the sparks that light the fire of our intention. They are the fuel that keeps our dreams alive, the determining factor that makes the difference between surrender and persistence. For millions of people personal goals represent the turning point that took them from poverty to prosperity, from resignation to resilience and from depression to happiness." - Brian Mayne

Based on the very successful New Insights life coaching methodology and Brian Mayne's goal mapping, this workshop will support you in making your life your own. It will guide you to create goals and plan, track and achieve them!

Here's a quick peek inside the Personal Goal Getting Workshop

• The power of goals
• The magic of manifestation
• Finding balance
• What do you REALLY want?
• The ultimate goal-setting formula
• Anchoring your goals
• Developing your personal game plan
• Tracking and celebrating your goals

Begin to take control so you can BE, DO and HAVE the life of your dreams.

"Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life." - Mark Twain

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

"Either you learn to set your own goals, or you are destined to spend the rest of your life working for someone who does." - Brian Tracy, author

Learning Opportunities

Sensational Salads - Saturday, 12 March 2011, 09h00 - 12h00

Salads can appear on the menu in so many different guises that it is easy to imagine that they were invented by the contemporary health conscious chef. In fact, salads featuring fresh herbs from the garden might be the smartest thing you can do for your health. And your family will relish them. From simple appetizers to comforting main dishes this class will equip you to select the best ingredients and use them in creative ways to elevate your salads from boring to extraordinary.

Don't miss out. Come spoil yourself to a relaxing morning of new ideas, new skills and new flavours.
Booking is essential. Please call Teresa on 082 416 7146, or visit www.masterherbgardening.com

Cooking with Herbs Class

When: Saturday 29 January; 09h00 to 12h00
Where: D'Inyanga Lapa, Kameeldrift-East, Pretoria. (About 10 minutes from the N1 Zambezi Toll Gate)
Cost: Sliding Scale between R245 and R500 - just follow your heart.
Details: Please see http://www.masterherbgardening.com/classes.html

You and your partner, or a friend(s), are cordially invited to join me for a Cooking with Herbs Class, an event that is guaranteed to lift your cooking to another level.

There are a number of ways to learn a new skill. You can jump in without any prior knowledge and count on the "sink-or-swim" reaction to pull you through. You can find "free" information on the internet. You can read books. Or you can go straight to someone who is already doing it well.

Our classes proof that aromatic, stimulating and delicious beyond words can also be healthy and contribute to your overall health and vitality.

Each class is structured around a handful of delightful recipes and offers practical solutions for putting healthy flavours into effect. You will also discover how clever use of herbs, spices and other flavours can give you an endless repertoire of delicious dishes.

Classes are held in rural Pretoria (just 10 minutes from the N1 Zambezi tollgate) and offer you the opportunity to break away from the hustle and bustle of the city and experience a working organic food garden and fresh cut herb growing operation. There is also the opportunity to buy a few essential organic gardening supplies.

Our cooking classes are a great family activity, a fantastic team building tool and a wonderful kitchen tea for the new bride and her friends and family.

Don't miss out. Come spoil yourself to a relaxing morning of new ideas, new skills and new flavours.

Booking is essential. Please call Teresa on 082 416 7146, or email her at herbacademy@gmail.com .

Cape Bookings Now Open

If you are from the Western Cape, you are cordially invited to join me for the final Go Food Gardening 2-Day Course to be held in 2010. Doing this course now will enable you to take full advantage of the current growing season.

When: Saturday and Sunday 06 and 07 November; 09h00 - 16h00.

Where: Cape Winelands, (venue to be confirmed)

Cost: R650 - R1500 (see details).

Details: http://www.masterherbgardening.com/course.html.

One of the strengths of this intensive course is its combination of pre-course homework, classroom instruction, demonstrations, and hands-on practical work.

Another benefit is that it does not teach a one-size-fits-all approach. The why, where and when of each tool and practice is explained. This enables you to unlock the full potential of your food garden.
 
Come join me and discover the thrill and satisfaction of successfully setting up and managing your own organic food garden.

2242 Fans and Still Growing

Wow! Our Facebook page has passed the 2000 fans benchmark. Thank you for your support and for helping us make South Africa a greener, healthier, tastier place - one crop and one food garden at a time.

If you are looking for inspiration and a place to share with and learn from other South African food gardeners, why don't you join us? http://www.facebook.com/pages/Go-Food-Gardening/363723207110

Boosting Crop Yields All Year Round

Last Saturday's workshop was a resounding success and we now have 16 very happy food gardeners who have mastered the art of setting up their own multiple food gardens, and improving their soil fertility.

On the 4th of September we will tackle the all important aspects surrounding boosting crops yields all year round. And I still have space available. Please see www.masterherbgardening.com/workshops.html
 
So come join me and discover the thrill and satisfaction of successfully boosting your year round crop yields.

Happy food gardening.

How To Reconnect With Herbology

New year's resolutions. You either love them or hate them. But they are a fact of life for most of us. Especially the fact that by this time of the year we've forgotten most of them.

I do trust however that one of the resolutions that's still fresh on your mind is to do something constructive about your interest in herbology - or something to that effect.

To help you succeed here's a few ideas to consider that might struck a chord with you.

How about doing nothing?

Yes, resolve to do nothing. As in resolve to be idle. I know, you've got a million things to do. There is no time for idleness. There are plants to tend to, recipes to try, courses to take.

As Sean de Souza points out, we live in a world that has forgotten what it means to be still. To just sit under a tree and do nothing. Not read. Not scold the kids. Not pick up the cell phone. Just sit and watch the world go by.

Before you delete this post. Please give it some thought.  It isn't such a crazy idea. You DO NOT have to fill your day with stuff. Sometimes it is more beneficial to be idle. As in doing nothing.

No ways, I hear you say. I can never be idle.

Here is my challenge. Just try it. Even if it just for an hour this weekend. Well okay, I'll be fine with 15 minutes for a start, if you insist.

Just be lazy. Just watch butterflies. Or watch the weeds growing. But be idle.

Do what Henriette's (a reader of this newsletter) father used to say: "Sometimes I sits and thinks. And sometimes I just sits."

Because, says Sean, as an ancient Chinese saying goes: "Man who sits by river all day, and doesn't think it's a waste of time, is a wise man."

Don't you have a more 'active' idea?

I certainly do. And if you are up to this challenge it will save you from 'losing it' as you grow old.

Let me explain.

Theunis from Potchefstroom Garden Pavilion recently shared the research results of Professor John McCallum of Victoria University in Melbourne into activities that will cut our risk of dementia, with me. According to Prof McCallum: "One activity that will cut your risk of dementia by a whopping 36% is pottering in the garden."

And pottering is - doing nothing much - says my Oxford Thesaurus.

"Daily gardening is a complex variable, and we can't really isolate the 'active ingredient'," says Prof McCallum. "It's a combination of being physically active, eating the good fresh food that they grow, and having a sense of future and purpose."

What's more, gardening, even if it is just pottering around in a pot on a windowsill, reconnects you with the absolute wonder and beauty of the amazing creation we call nature. It reconnects you with the Divine Presence of our Creator in everything around you.

And when you 'food garden' you experience first hand the truth of "… and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine." (Ezekiel 47:12) Now that is reconnecting don't you think?

May I challenge you?

Whilst living out your herbology resolutions, BE IDLE to spend time with our Creator and to thank Him for the wonderful gifts He has bestowed on us.

If you are up to this challenge then let me know. Just click the Comment link below.

And if you need to re-learn how to potter in your own food garden check out Go Food Gardening.

Big Savings on Herb Courses

This is to alert you to the fact that the SA Herb Academy is rolling out their new pricing structure on 15 December 2007.

In some cases the increases are quite sharp. So take advantage of this notification to get your courses at the old prices.

Here's how much you'll save if you act before 15 December 2007:

Save R750 on the Family Herbalist Home Study Program. Currently R775. From 15 Dec R1525

Save R120 on the Cooking With Herbs crash course. Currently R129. From 15 Dec R249.

Save R120 on the Planning a Wildly Successful Herb Garden crash course. Currently R129. From 15 Dec R249.

Save R60 on the Herbal Remedy Handbook. Currently R139. From 15 Dec R199.

Save R50 on the How To Boost Your Metabolism e-seminar. Currently R49. From 15 Dec R99.

Don't say I didn't warn you.