In May 2017 Sarah was invited by Dr Ali Halajian to talk to Biology and Zoology students at the University of Limpopo.
The talk was about the use of baobab fruit to support rural livelihoods and conservation of baobab trees. The students enjoyed the talk so much that they will be visiting Sarah in the near future to find out more.
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A new species of baobab, Adansonia kilima, has recently been described for Africa by Prof. Jack Pettigrew. This is significant because worldwide there are only eight species of baobab, six of them are in Madagascar, one is in Australia and one in Africa (Adansonia digitata). But what has always intrigued taxonomists is that the species […]
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Each year marula beer connoisseurs make their annual pilgrimage to the far reaches of Limpopo to visit their favourite master brewers of marula beer. It’s a womens’ traditional craft and in order to get a taste of each woman’s brew you need to go ‘homestead hopping, visiting one home after another. Each one is different and this year Sarah Venter did her own tour of marula beer mavens and found out a few secrets along the way.
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I was visiting a village in Venda the other day and needed to talk to the community about when I would be collecting baobab fruit. During the day people are scattered and busy with other chores so it’s difficult to get to speak to everybody at the same time. The headman’s wife was so excited […]
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