Thursday, 23 June 2011

Sheet Mulching

When you want to make a garden and you want to do it healthy you can do a quick job without hard work.

 Its quite easy and kind of fun . You can do it any were you want to like on top of the grass and on dry ground . You first have to put some soil on top of the grass or on the dry ground , but the soil must be useful and it must have some compos with to help the proses keep on going. Then on top of that soil you can put some cardboard so that the grass can not grow into your garden and mess everything up. Then after you put your cardboard you have to spray it with water to get everything real wet . After the cardboard you can put some stuff like leaves or compos, plants, sticks or even some more soil, when you are finished with everything you can just dig a small hole till you get the bottom soil and then you can plant all your vegies or plants which you want to plant there.

Tuesday, 21 June 2011

RG Poaching

We learned how to walk in a line and how to communicate without talking to anyone . We identified a lot of traps and signs that shows that there is some poachers who is poaching on the farm.

 Steps how to deal with a poacher:

  1.  ID yourself
  2.  ID your Title
  3.  Ask his ID
  4.  Ask why is he here 
  5.  Ask if he has a permit to be there
  6.  Disarm the poacher
  7.  Arrest the poacher
  8.  Question the poacher
  9.  Secure the scene
  10.  Collect all the evidence there is
  11.  Read his rights for him
  12.  Take the poacher to the Police station
  13.  Open a document
  14.  Present the evidence at the Police station
  15.  Set a court date
  16.  Appear in court at the date you arranged at the Police station
 All the steps must be done without any force and anger . You have to arrest him and you also have to read or say his legal rights to him before you take him to the police station.

RG Inkberry

We took some Inkberry out again to help the animals like the cows and the horses .Because the inkberry will kill them if they eat it , so we cutted all the inkberry and dabbed them as well so they can die . We used some pangas and some Round-Up to help kill the inkberry bushes

RG

Today we were doing some fence checks as well as some identification of Fauna and Flora . In our fire checks this morning we looked at the places were they cutted the grass and were they used the bulldozer to make some fire walls to keep the fire off Sondela.

 We also looked at the kinds of soil we get on some places on Sondela and what kind of trees and animals we will get mostly in that terrain . In the Red soil area we will get a lot of Sekelbushes and in the Turf soil we will get more of the Acasia trees like the Ambrella thorn and the Sentedpot Acasia.

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

RG

Today we learned how to take care of the Ink bushes and there were certain ways to do that .
 There are 4 ways to take care of a problem plant and that is:
  •  Chemical
  •  Physical
  •  Intergrated
  •  Biological
Firstly we cutted the stem of the bushes and then we dabbed them with some Round-Up with colouring mixed into the Round-UP to show were we dabbed them .
 Secondly we sprayed the bushes with spray bottles to see whitch way works the best .When we had to spray the bushes we had to make sure that 70% of the bushes are covert with the Round-Up .

 THE OHS OF THE DAY WE WORKED WITH THE INK BUSHES AND WITH ROUND-UP IS:

  •  We had to wear gloves because we are working with poison and if that gets into your sores on your hands or arms it may kill you.
  •  When we spray the bushes we had to make sure that no one is close were and when we spray the bushes otherwise we can kill each other with the poison that is being sprayed.

RG

We putted out 12licking blocks out at different places
  1.  Water wholes
  2. In the bush at the Dip boules 
  3.  At the management houses 
  4.  At the big boss's house

Sunday, 5 June 2011

FIXING FENCES

Well I've learned a lot about equiptment and how to fix the fence in certain ways . The other day when the Giraffes ran almost the whole fence down we had to go out and fix it. 

 We've putted new wires on the peace were they ran the fence down and we just tighten it with some Gripple's and that was something to learn .