Spring is in the Air

July 20th, 2012

The blossoms at Babylonstoren are starting to show, which means that the transition from winter chills to long-awaited Spring has begun! We’ll be celebrating August as ...

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What’s the Entrance fee all About?

July 18th, 2012

When visitors come to Babylonstoren, whether it’s for lunch, garden tour or a spa treatment, they often express surprise at the entrance fee at the ...

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Meet Meisiekind & Lulu

July 3rd, 2012

We’ve introduced our donkey family on this blog before, and thought you might like to know a bit more about these two gentle beasts who live ...

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More about Mampoer

June 20th, 2012

A month ago, we blogged about the first stages of making our Naartjie mampoer (click here to see the post). Well, since then, the naartjie juice ...

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Biltong

June 14th, 2012

At Babylonstoren we take pride in making our very own and very delicious biltong*, using only the best cuts of beef. We marinate it overnight ...

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Next up: Naartjie Mampoer

May 18th, 2012

About a year ago, our winemaker, Charl Coetzee, was tasked with setting up and running the Babylonstoren distillery. The distillery is now all set up ...

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Early Morning on the Farm

May 4th, 2012

There’s nothing as lovely as an early morning on the farm after a few days of rain, with everything looking and smelling so nice and ...

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Owl Spotting

February 2nd, 2012

As is the case at any farm, we have to deal with gerbil and mouse populations, and of course, we’d like as natural a solution ...

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Pruim Mampoer

November 17th, 2011

Our distillery is almost ready to start work, so we’ve begun preparing prunes harvested from our trees before firing up our kettle for the first ...

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A New Arrival

September 22nd, 2011


A year-old steenbok ram was introduced onto the farm this weekend to increase the diversity of the existing gene pool of steenbokkies found on ...

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