Hope's Haven

Hope's Haven 🌱Empowering growth through permaculture, Harvesting hope for our future.🌾🌿

We are a family-operated non-profit organization dedicated to educating the youth in our community about permaculture practices and self-sustainability. We actively encourage the younger generations to inquire and explore by asking as many questions as they can, recognizing that they are the future stewards of our planet.

What a green summer!
14/01/2026

What a green summer!

14/01/2026

Well I just became a vegetarian..🙃 goodbye bacon.🥓😭😭

When we first got chickens, for breeding meat, I quickly became aware of the society they create within themselves. Their specific language and even their compassion. The care our Buffalo (main rooster) shows to his ladies and his children, really got me thinking.

I've seen him watch me set traps, his beady eyes scrutinizing my every move. Only to warn the other chickens with a series of unusual sounds and make them turn away from delicious treats under the cage, mid run. I've seen him pick the ants off of his dying baby instead of eating it. I've seen him chastise pullets and roos for their bullying. I've seen him build nests and teach his ladies to sit by getting on the eggs and purring until they join him.
And no, I do not think I personify animals. I observe and take notes of all their sounds and movements. If these are not akin to us, then what even are we? Better than them because we have "a brain".
My theory is that most humans have become so arrogant and ignorant that we didn't even take the time to learn Nature's language. Just as we don't even learn each other's...

I see our family continuing to eat meat only from absolutely necessary death at the end of a good life in our food forest. Sure, nothings gonna taste the same, but dignity in life should. I think we've all become so used to the tortured food we eat that we've forgotten they're alive too.

So blessed with these babies😍
17/11/2025

So blessed with these babies😍

There's something to be said about method.. Below we have two hugelkultur-bedded areas in the same garden. One was done ...
11/11/2025

There's something to be said about method..
Below we have two hugelkultur-bedded areas in the same garden. One was done without guidance and simply shown in diagrams. The second was done with guidance and learned techniques.

The results of the correct layering are astounding. Especially considering that the mounds that are baron were made a year earlier and should be well established by now.

Training the sunflowers and tomatoes THROUGH the fence as they grow this year. I thought it was a genius idea until some...
11/11/2025

Training the sunflowers and tomatoes THROUGH the fence as they grow this year. I thought it was a genius idea until someone pointed out it may pull the fence out of the ground as they grow...
Hmm...might have a point there. But I guess this is why we experiment 🤷🏻‍♀️

Does anyone have experience with this? What are your thoughts? Did I just wreck the fence...🤦‍♀️

We are hosting a permaculture weekend in the Drakensberg. Learn how to build self-composting hugelkultur beds with prac...
11/11/2025

We are hosting a permaculture weekend in the Drakensberg. Learn how to build self-composting hugelkultur beds with practical experience and end your days in luxury at Antbear Eco-lodge.

Let's not joke..food prices are wild! How are we supposed to eat healthily with the prices like this man..🤦‍♀️It's times...
04/11/2025

Let's not joke..food prices are wild! How are we supposed to eat healthily with the prices like this man..🤦‍♀️
It's times like these that I'm grateful for our garden. And of course specials on mayo and flour!😅

Veggie wraps for the win every time. Thank you plants.

Wraps: 3 cups flour, 1T oil, 1t salt, 1 1/2 cups warm water. Mix and knead. Let it sit for 10 minutes. Cut into 16 parts. Roll out into circle. Dry fry each side for 30 seconds on medium heat.
Salad: whatever is available in the garden, mayo. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Chilli sauce makes them next level.😉
Enjoy🌸❤️

Garden 2 update.Spiral hugel is covered with compost and sand and planted. Long above ground raised bed is filled and pl...
26/10/2025

Garden 2 update.
Spiral hugel is covered with compost and sand and planted.
Long above ground raised bed is filled and planted. (Soil finally arrived🥲)
Jay will be adding some edging to the sides🤩

Garden 3 update. Planting day😁 by far the best day. Planter box filled and planted, terraces planted and seeds scattered...
26/10/2025

Garden 3 update. Planting day😁 by far the best day.
Planter box filled and planted, terraces planted and seeds scattered. Citrus trees in.

Once everything is settled we'll replace the weaklings and scatter more seed.

This cat!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
15/10/2025

This cat!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

15/10/2025

Teenaged chickens may be ugly but we still love them.🥰

Built some new hugels near the chicken coops to supplement snacks for them. Recent rains have made them explode with gro...
15/10/2025

Built some new hugels near the chicken coops to supplement snacks for them. Recent rains have made them explode with growth.

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