Year 1
Harsh Realities of Homesteading – What Urban Dreamers Should Know Before Taking the Plunge Part 1
Wake up to the sounds of nature, grow your own food, be surrounded by animals, preserve food, make cool things, build your own home, be offgrid, live a simpler life. It’s a dream of many. We followed that dream almost...
We Ate From Our Garden for the First Time!
This should have been posted 3 weeks ago already - but we have day jobs! :D We had our first mini harvest recently and we are still getting produce from our very young kitchen garden. We have used permaculture principles...
Lessons in Farm Roads
Permaculture is very clear on this matter - design the water systems / infrastructure first, measure swales, make all roads on contour, then put in structures! This is stuff we know, but of course, life intervenes and things don't always...
Pompom Weed (and Friends) Removed!
It took 3 men, 4 weeks, 6 days a week, to clear 21ha of 4 hectically invasive plant species! Moses and Ntsako dug it all up. Dickie fetched it with the golf cart and tractor and delivered to a central...
Our Top 10 Tips for Going Offgrid (So Far)
The Self-Sufficiency and Sustainable Living (South Africa) Facebook page is amazing. Nearly 30 000 people building a beautiful new existence for the world to appreciate and uplifting people. Someone recently asked if moving to a farm was worth it and...
Africa Time
Punctuality has always been a thing for me. I've always been on time to meetings and events, if you say 3pm, I'm there at 5 to 3; waiting irritated me. And then we moved to the farm... I have no...
The Dark Side of “Community”
We moved to the country to build a better life. It took 20 years to realise this dream. We had all these aspirations and visions. Living in a tight knit community that takes care of each other, appreciating and caring...
Transitioning to Farm Life
Detoxing from city life and settling into farm life has been challenging. There has been so much to absorb and adjust to, it all becomes a bit of a blur eventually. Funny enough, the weather has been the biggest challenge. ...
Timeline to Date
It’s been an epic adventure to just get to this point. Here’s how it’s gone down : October 2020 – see the farm for the first time, put in an offer, offer accepted November 2020 – get a permaculture assessment...
Some People Have All the Luck Hey
People were asking me about the farm whilst we were waiting for the rest of the people to arrive for a meeting recently. On relaying what we were doing, someone said, “some people have all the luck hey”. Luck had...