We love our trees.
All of them .
We have tried not to cut down too many trees on this property since we have been here and have made the fields and roads on the farm around the trees, trying to capture
and preserve
the special feeling of the trees on Naciriyawa Farm.
So, when the opportunity came to get involved in a
reforestry project in Fiji,
we were very happy.
read about it here
and here....
It however, also meant that we had to cut some trees ...to save some trees.....
Claude measured out the area we thought would be big enough for about 100 000 saplings and he started to
de stump and remove trees...
Funny how life is.....Claude and his brother had a de-stumping company in Knysna , South Africa many years ago and now that knowledge and experience came in handy!
Holes had to be dug...a job that seemed endless and hard..as hard as the dry soil....rainy conditions had not yet set in....
So , as the saying in Afrikaans goes....a Boer maak n plan.....(to make another arrangement/plan)
and pretty soon the fence posts were up....(ok , maybe not that soon....)
and then the fencing material arrived.....
a work in progress.....
and like he said - there must be a time for
pleasure (fishing)
as well......
the rains came....and our
Agroforestry Nursery
is now a proud addition to Naciriyawa Farm.
more about this later.......
