What’s on in March?

February 23rd, 2024


It’s pumpkin time! 



Each year when our gardening team unveils the collection of pumpkins they’ve been tending to all summer, we ...

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Wat gebeur in Maart?

February 23rd, 2024


Dis weer pampoentyd!  



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Ons tuinspan pamperlang die hele somer lank die pampoene – vandat ...

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Boland Risotto

May 5th, 2023


It’s nearing a decade since the first carnaroli rice harvest was sickled from the paddy at Babylonstoren. Boland risotto … who would have thought?!


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Cool as Rice

November 6th, 2015

We're on the brink of summer, the bountiful season. Warmer days bring a new burst of new energy; farmer Hannes and team thinning out young plums and topping vines. They also planted risotto in our rice paddy, next to the vlei. You'd think you're in Po Valley of Italy, where a hundred thousand women from the South once came to tend the harvest.

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