Tribewanted: Vorovoro

Peanuts!!! Once grown extensively on the island by Poasa and Tui Mali’s grandfather, peanuts are both an easy to grow and versatile nut, which will provide a bumper crop with very little care required in just under three months.

Having bought the green peanuts at the market, which come in a shell just as we get them back home, we started pealing them only to realize we were presented with another issue: what to do with the shells?

It was one of those marriages made in heaven. We had been planning a bean bag making workshop for the Green Club to illustrate the reuse of plastic as a stuffing when Tribe Member Julie suggested that we use crushed peanut shells instead.

Needless to say that the thrifty plan worked a treat and the children as always thoroughly enjoyed the workshop as well as having bean bags to take home with then to play with. Happy days.