Friday, 28 September 2012

my first day in resource guardianship

the facilitators introduced themself to us, then after we went with carl to the bsh were he was showing us or teaching us  about the borehole which we have in sondela, we have 9 boreholes in sondela nature reserve, we were using the insulation tester  and a wire rope that was thrown into the bore hole to measre how much of water is still in the bore hole, it was a great experience because we went into different types of boreholes in sondela. on wednesday we went to do gardening were they taught us how to use a rake and a spade, we were takin out all the weeds that were at the strawberry plants, after we finished with the strawberry site then we were planting the vegetables like cabbage,beans and spinach, it was very fun because we  were working as a team while we busy preparing the veges to be planted the boys were digging up for us were we should plant and everything was going great even if others were not partipating like others meaning they didnt want to work . on thursday i was in class the whole they taught us about fire , the colour of the fire and how you will know if that fire is dangerous or not that dangerous, then we learned about thedifferent type of maps then after we were busy with our workbook,on friday we were in the bush racking all the bycycle road, taking all the branches that was on the road of bicycle race to the other site.

Friday, 21 September 2012


when preparing the food the is  medication as well as probiotics that can be added to food like Ivomac-de wormer its used for de-worming with the animals, we use bio-rem (pro-biotic) only used for herbivores,protexin (pro-biotec)which is used for carnivores and herbivores. i have learned about the process of  following the good procedures with old food, it must go into separate waste bin, some fruits we throw them at the platform if its still in a good conditions for the animal like nyala and impalas and if not it have to be decomposed   or goes to the dumping site with other waste and for meat we take it to the vulter resturant if it doesnt have medication into their body and if it does we burn the meat, what we call combutioin
in species care i have learned about how to use a scale were you should scale type of meat and powder milk,it depend on the type of animal like age the age,size and wether the animal is sick or not,  plant need a space to grow, the light , temperature,air,water,the time and most of all the nurients. The three type of toxic plants found in sondela its inkbessie,gifblaar and milkweed. Defining softwood,hardwood cuttings: softwood-can be used to propagatea wide a range of  mainly decideous shrubs and some trees in early spring,2 hardwaood cutting: provide an easy and reliable method of progating a range of decideous climbers,trees and shrubs and as a bonus,they are taken from  mid_autumn late winter when more time is usualy available to the gardener.