Kristy The Typical Wambo

  Omalovu is our traditional beer made out of feremented sorghum grains. We use locally sorghum grains   They are feremented for three days, and graded to sorghum flour, which is then dried before it is used to make beer. however, it requires a huge fire, meaning a lot of firewood is needed, big pot and a lot of water.   A brief process of brewing traditonal beer We mix the flour with water in a bucket or something and then add it to the pot. You measure the flour according to the amount of drinking litres you would want. Start steering, with a small branch from a palm tree, I dont know why we use it but i guess its the best😂😂 let it heat for hours (2-3), after that, you remove it and let it cool down We use a calabash (omindo) to transfer it from the pot into a brown sack with fine pores sieving process. It doesnt take hours though😁it drips very fast into a bucket from the schumucker.   After the sieving process, we find a thick part from the sorghum flour, which...

        Ombidi is one of Namibia's indigenous green leafy vegetables.   However, we only get to harvest this spinach during rainy seasons, because it grows rapidly in warmer months. It is quite a long process and I will go through it with you. We first harvest the spinach as shown in the picture above   We wash it thoroughly   Start with the cooking process. So here you decide if you would want omavanda(dried spinach) or not. If its dried spinach, we just cook it without adding any ingredients such as salt or oil. When its done cooking, we drain the water out of the spinach and we just dry it! Omavanda will be ready for consumption and preservation.  

  This is me! Busy with Uushosho (fertilizer)So what actually happens here is that we collect fertilizer from our cattle kraal into our Omahangu field. It is actually quite a long process.