Quick Pic Post 3

The jungle that was my back yard when I got back from IST

IST, now in Bullets!*

• Awesome Yekini notebook (possibly purple)
• Permaculture!
• “Food Forests”
• Compost… why not?
• Heavy Givers, Heavy Feeders, Light Feeders
• Keyhole Garden
• Hammock Garden!
• Fences are not animal proof, walls are not kid proof
• Pomegranate can grow here
• I need to look more into planting Leucaena and Gmelina
• There are a bunh of books I want to get
• Rocket stoves are pretty sweet, but I think they will be a hard sell in Khossanto
• “Hey there Mr. Spidermite… are you doing any damage? Is there a beetle around that’s going to eat you?”
• Manure has a bunch of seeds in it, compost done right should kill all those seeds
• Small Scale ≠ Small Yield
• AIDs is probably more of an issue in Khossanto that I originally thought with the Mining nearby
• Women in Development --> Gender and Development --> Men as Partners
• EE in Senegal - Look at the GLOBE Project
• Community Content Based Instruction: It will be really tough to do with the lack of flexibility in the school system, but it is important to get a little environmental knowledge out there however possible.
• Community Radio, it’s actually going to be fun… especially since I can edit it on the computer to fix my language mistakes
• Malinke Girls’ Soccer Camp?
• Dinner with Aziz!
• Waste Management - Take it slow, go through the right channels, and give credit where it is due.
• Senegal is NOT eligible for Eco Schools!?
• Chicken Raising (layers vs. Broilers)
• Outplanting = fun times in dirt!
• “The rubber stamp in important”
• SeneGAD
• Bee Keeping!
• Red and Yellow = Bees
• Blue and Green = Butterflys
• White = Bats and Moths
• Needs ≠ Desires
• Hilly Billy Breath is a home-made insecticide
• Chopped Mint, Ash, Garlic and Tobacco, with some soap
• Beer kills slugs and coke might help with Rats