Oh, for the old fencing posts!
‘Miti’ is outstanding
My wife and I started the first commercial fencing company in Kenya in 1978, Elephence Ltd. Our post supplier was East Africa Tanning Extract Company (EATEC) of Eldoret. They had vast estates of black wattle. They “tanalised” their posts after drying them and therein lay the secret of the longevity of the poles. EATEC used to sun-dry the poles, testing for moisture content regularly, until there was only a small core of moisture. They then pressure treated them. There are many fences, all over the country, still as strong as the day we built them, more than 30 years ago! Today people are in a rush and treated posts do not last as long as they used to. That’s why many “free-standing” fences today are
Miti is an extraordinary publication. Congratulations. It is encouraging to read of so many positive projects among such destruction of our habitat.
built with metal posts.
Linda Were Nairobi
Gilfrid Powys Nanyuki
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Remembering Wangari Maathai (1940 – 2011) conservationist extraordinaire “ ... By planting trees, my colleagues in this grassroots movement (Green Belt Movement) and I planted ideas. The ideas, like the trees, grew. By providing education, access to water, and equity, GBM empowers people – most of them poor and most of them women – to take action, directly improving the lives of individuals and families. “Our experience of thirty years has also shown that simple acts can lead to great change and respect for the environment, good governance, and cultures of peace ... Only by working together can we hope to solve some of the problems of this precious planet.” -Wangari Maathai, in Unbowed, One Woman’s Story.
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Miti October-December 2011