Comments on: Energetic Beauty; Water Hyacinth

By: GRUDI Worldwide

GRUDI Worldwide — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:25:31 +0000

Re: Hyacinth
We have the same problem of Water Hyacinth on Lake Victoria in Kenya. How was the program for harvesting for cattle feed conducted as we would be interested in educating the local communities in Kenya. grudi.worldwide@gmail.com

By: Build water feature

Build water feature — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:53:23 +0000

Since my childhood a water hyacinth has been a beautiful and vigorous plant to me. However, as I grew older, another side of this plant gradually came to the fore: The devastating power of an invader plant, an alien. In certain parts of South Africa this plant has invaded the rivers and dams to such an extent, that only heavy sustained downpours can rectify the problem. Only then the rivers and dams are cleared and life emerges again. Until they slowly but surely come back and start their invasion again. Recently an entrepreneur came up with the idea of harvesting the hyacinth (for cattle food) in one of the bigger dams. This has turned into a flourishing business, with benefits not only for the entrepreneur and the farmers needing the food for their livestock, but also for the local water board needing the water to be clean.

By: LINDA SECRIST

LINDA SECRIST — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:54:55 +0000

I feed my compost bin freely by midsummer with the excess. I like water lettuce better, not as rampant a grower just doesn’t bloom.