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How To Press Plants to make a Herbarium

May 5th, 2020


The art of pressing plants has long been a favourite childhood activity – children and parents would press flowers with heavy books to make ...

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How to cook with beetroot

April 20th, 2020


by Maranda Engelbrecht



Babylonstoren’s beetroot, freshly harvested, have revealed another dimension in terms of taste to me. They are super-sweet, ready ...

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RECIPE: FOUGASSE WITH HONEY-BAKED CAMEMBERT

April 11th, 2020


We’re well into week three of the lockdown and most of us have settled into the new way of life, and are trying to ...

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How to cook with aubergine

April 8th, 2020


This is a vegetable you either love or loathe. If the latter, it could be that your distaste originated in poor preparation. The aubergine ...

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Special Collections Garden Tours

February 17th, 2020






To keep our garden in tip-top shape all year round requires many skilled hands, sharp secateurs and laborious hours of ...

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