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HALEBIC ARCHITECT "ADVICE FOR SURVIVAL" You could find strawberry extract and all kinds of stuff like that at the market. People asked me where I got such an idea. I got the idea because I had noticed that people were not looking for that stuff. I wanted to make it as imaginatively as possible. And I would make so many different kinds of cakes for the children, which I hadn't thought were even possible. Once, I said as joke, how much would this cost? What would be the price for this cake that looks like a symphony, like some fantasy? That got me to prepare everything and take one especially beautiful cake into one café. I remember that the café was in New Sarajevo, and I offered it to the owner. This is a whole different story, but they needed cakes because it was a café with a pastry-shop. They were not allowed to sell alcohol. So they needed some kind of decoration, they needed cakes. Of course, the owner liked the look of the cake and he tasted it, everyone tried it. So he said, bring five pieces tomorrow. That was a first order. Next time there were ten cakes. I ran home beside myself with happiness. We had no gas at that time, and for water you had to wait in line. Gas would come after two in the night, and I would prepare everything to bake the cake between two and four because then there was the most gas and only then could you only bake something in the oven. Everything would be done around eight or ten, depending on how many shells were fired on Pofalici. And I'd walk from one cafˇ to another. Usually there were a few pieces left over for the next cafˇ and that's how I would take over the market. I took over the whole city, From New Sarajevo to Bascarsija. I would return to Pofalici through the tunnel. That was the most beautiful moment. When I came to the tunnel, I was really safe. ANA MRDOVIC HORTICULTURE EXPERT "ADVICE FOR SURVIVAL" Save water. Water the plants. And use the amount you collected for watering early in the morning or late at night. For two reasons. We know that it is dangerous to water during the day. The other reason is that the ground is cool, the water that you gave the vegetables, that is that you gave the soil, will keep longer on cool ground. It will penetrate the soil gradually, it will go deeper into the ground and the roots will grow deeper looking for water and the nutritious elements in the water. In that way, the plant will take advantage of everything it finds in the soil, using the water to the hilt. BESIM AVDAGIC JOURNALIST AT THE MAGAZINE "ZADRUGAR "ADVICE FOR SURVIVAL" We insisted that very yard of land should be seeded. But by '93 there was a problem, no manure, and no pesticides. We offered the Sarajevans pigeon manure, and all the lofts in the city were cleaned out, since there were no pesticides we went back to what our grandfathers and grandmothers had used, old recipes. Ash from heating stoves and planting selected plants that made use of it. Of course we immediately gave instructions how to preserve food, drying, conserving and so on, for a considerable time especially in winter. We wrote all the numbers of the magazine according to the growth rate, time of year and vegetative period. They were particularly adapted for growing vegetables in the town. Since there were no more seeds we had special information on how to use edible wild plants, for flour and for oil, sugar, seasoning, salads, and so on. And we also gave recipes and how to use them. We gave special advice on using mushrooms there wasn't a great choice in the town but we put out special information on growing mushrooms and very soon there were several producers. Two of the brigades that were defending Sarajevo started farm mushrooms. Since the human body needs protein we offered the Sarajevans meat products. At first we recommended using snails and very soon there were no more snails in town. Then we provided information on pigeon breeding. We didn't recommend the Sarajevo pigeons, but tame pigeons. But we got pigeons like urban chickens and they were very nutritionally important. I personally attended several lunches or suppers organized according to our slogan "Pick your lunch and catch your supper". We produced a special number on rearing rabbits, like urban cattle. And soon there were a score or so of breeding centers in the town. The military units were especially helpful. When they constructed the tunnel under the runway we propagated goat breeding to be the poor man's mother, and chicken breeding like a small factory, because they give meat and eggs and so on. ANA MRDOVIC HORTICULTURE EXPERT "ADVICE FOR SURVIVAL" I have to say, let's, as opposed to normal years, try to use the whole vegetation season. Vegetables can be grown in the garden all 12 months. September is in fact the starting point for the fall sowing of vegetables that we'll use in early fall and early spring. What can we sow in September? We can sow Swiss chard that will grow leaves throughout the spring. We can sow spinach that we'll pick in early spring. We can sow red seed-onion. We'll eat the bigger bulbs, in fact leaves. The spring onion of this red seed-onion we can eat already in the fall and early spring. We can sow lamb's tongue that we'll pick during the whole fall. SMILJKA VUKASINOVIC PROFESSOR AT THE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE "ADVICE FOR SURVIVAL" We used every bit of space, windows, balconies, the sides of streets, We planted out in anything we could find, sometimes old tins, cheese boxes, we filled everything we could with earth and sowed seeds in it and so we made our own nurseries and later planted them out in any place we could. Back to Top |
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