MOSSEL BAY NEWS - On Saturday, 21 May, Mossel Bay resident and coffee expert, Aharon Baruch, held a demonstration at a resident's house in Bruns Road, where he showed gardeners how to grow vegetables or flowers by using coffee grains and fine and rough bark.
He explained to gardeners that when roasting coffee, there is a coffee skin.
"We then take it out of the machine and when we make coffee, the part that is left is called coffee chaff, also known as cookies. We mix the skin and the cookies together and this creates the most wonderful compost for your garden."
Aharon says this creates a fluffy type of compost that is also sterilised due to the heat that is involved in the roasting process.
"You can use this for anything - for your beds, for roses, everywhere in your garden. It repels insects and you can even use it for your skin."
He says any tea or coffee would add value to gardens.
More than 20 residents attended the event.
"Aahron delivered on the promise and inspired even the most committed couch potato that with very little outlay, no hard labour, weeding and minimum watering, one can have a casual, maybe chaotic garden that will delight the belly and soul," Wendy Nilsson, a resident and gardener told the Mossel Bay Advertiser.
The demonstration was born out of the desire of a few people concerned to be proactive and help Mossel Bay people adopt a culture of cultivation.
"Imagine if every person in Mossel Bay grew a metre of something and we swapped what we had," Aahron said.
Aharon Baruch adds "coffee compost" to the ground.
Coffee grains and coffee chaff mixed together.
You don't need much space to plant vegetables. This is an example of how a small space can be used to plant spinach.
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