Canna Buzz Africa

28/10/2025

Where are we this week? Exploring green spaces in Noordhoek, there’s a very important fynbos fair date to diarise, plus …. what do we really think of leaf blowers? I’m with Team Rake and Cate Blanchett

Wild creatures flit in and out of nature's garden

14/10/2025

This week’s green spaces newsletter is all about nurseries, in Claremont and Welcome Glen, and the power of plants and open gardens in Noordhoek.

Training programme offers a fresh start

07/10/2025

Last weekend’s first Open Studios Fish Hoek and Clovelly was a whirlwind of lovely creative people meeting and mingling with art appreciation fans from all over Cape Town.

Last weekend’s first Open Studios Fish Hoek and Clovelly was a whirlwind of lovely creative people meeting and mingling with art appreciation fans from all over Cape Town.

30/09/2025

Take a slow stroll to view artists' spaces in Clovelly Road

12/04/2025

Chip Snaddon's stick sculpture is taking shape in the Silvermine River wetland area

26/03/2025

Extinction Rebellion Cape Town organised a protest for penguins on Tuesday 18 March at Boulders Beach near Simon’s Town.

and other animal news

19/03/2025

In 2022, the Department of Agriculture announced its plans to ban certain HHPs by 1 June 2024. However, the most dangerous of these pesticides have still not been banned and are still widely used on commercial farms, causing respiratory problems, skin irritations, genetic mutations, cancer, damage t...

05/02/2025

We messed up and I’m sorry. Watching Don’t Look Up when it was released in 2021 I focused on the satire, the wit, and dark humour. The warnings were there, and writer, director, and producer of Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay, was spot on.

Re-watching it, in the light of the Californian blazes and the inauguration of a climate-ignorant US president for the second time (I cannot mention his name for fear that the algorithm will find me and shove more orange monster ‘news’ down my throat) I feel a chill.

“You knew, we told you what would happen!” yells the scientist played by Leonardo di Caprio. Scientists around the world are saying the same thing as the climate crisis gets a grip on the planet, wholly unprepared for the devastation of successive droughts, heatwaves, fires, and wars.

How we chuckled the first time around

21/01/2025

When I was 10 I learnt about cruelty to animals. I went to a bullfight when we were living in Spain. We were invited by some American expats who had taken their children to see a ‘baby bullfight’ and thought we’d enjoy it.

I thought there would be ‘pretend’ fighting. But there was nothing pretend about the torture of the young bull, weeded out for the bull ring. I couldn’t watch as the trainee bullfighters pranced around, their pointy spears held above their heads, ready to stab into the animal’s neck.

Not child's play

10/12/2024

When I was a child we lived in Spain. I was about 10 years old. We weren’t there for very long and we lived in a villa on a beach that had lots of steps down to the sand. A friend gave us a puppy, one of several that had been thrown into the sea in a bag, to drown. Our puppy was the only survivor in the sack of discarded puppies. She looked like a little bear and she had a deep fear of the sea and would panic when I tried to get her to play on the beach with me. Thalassophobia?

Childhood memories about a little dog who was afraid of the sea

09/12/2024

Join us as we recap Grow One Africa's exciting participation in the University of Johannesburg's Inaugural H**p Research and Innovation Symposium! In this vi...

09/12/2024

🚨 Exciting Announcement! 🚨

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Zorodzai J.T. Maroveke to the Cheeba Cannabis & H**p Academy Academic Board! 🌱✨

Dr. Maroveke is a trailblazer in the Cannabis industry, serving as the Founder and CEO of the Zimbabwe Industrial H**p Trust (ZIHT). Since 2015, she has been a bold and determined advocate for the legalization and growth of Industrial H**p in Zimbabwe. Her tenacity and vision have made her a transformative force in shaping the Cannabis landscape.

We are honored to have her expertise and leadership on board as we continue to grow and educate the next generation of Cannabis professionals. 💡🌍

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