OTHER SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS

SOLAR COOKING

The Suncatcher is a light-weight, fold-up solar cooker manufactured by Richard Pocock. The Suncatcher is an inexpensive and user friendly solar concentrator. It is great for warming up meals while hiking or cooking an entire meal. The Suncatcher reflects all the panels onto the pot and as the sun moves the hot spot rotates around the pot rather than moving off it. A rectangular board is used to minimise waste and the cut-out includes washers for assembly. There are also built-in felt insulating washers for the pot and a drop over Nylon oven roasting bag for the greenhouse. The cooker is fully adjustable for seasonal and geographic sun angles and has pictographic instructions on the back. It can be folded up flat into a thermal bag for easy storage.

Saving heat escaping from your geyser will go a long way to reducing the energy consumption of your geyser.  This will impact overall demand for power from the National Grid and well as creating financial savings for the homeowner.

The Garden in a Box was developed by ISS partner Paula Osborn for the specific objective of increasing capacity and self-reliance for organic produce.  Increasing fuel prices are driving up the costs of food that will ultimately put local food security at risk.  The Garden in a Box is a month by month successive planting plan for the beginner or experienced grower.  This means season by season, the home-grower can harvest wholesome and nutritious organic vegetables and herbs from the garden all year round.  Seeds are supplied by organic growing projects, so there is a two-fold benefit of supporting this product.  We also offer a 1 month permaculture course in a number of areas for home-owners to send their gardeners to learn about organic agriculture, soil and land management and environmental upliftment in general.

Vermi-composting has proven to be one of the most efficient and productive ways for us to deal with our organic  kitchen and garden waste.  The enormous economic and environmental costs associated with land-filling make trashing our organic refuse highly inefficient and polluting.  By composting at home, creates savings in transport and landfilling costs AND reduces greenhouse gas emissions caused by the anaerobic decay of organic material in our land-fills.  The by products of vermi-composting are a rich, highly nutritious compost and an organic liquid fertiliser that has been processed by the worms for an immediate benefit for plants and long term benefits for the soil.