Babylon

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Experiments with Watermelons

January 25th, 2012


We were a little surprised to come across this odd object in our garden, but all was revealed by the art director of Visi Magazine, ...

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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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Growing Tomatoes

October 21st, 2011

This was written by Constance-Marie Hugo, an inhouse gardening student doing a practical at Babylonstoren for 6 months. Contance-Marie’s particular interest is gardening with edible plants, ...

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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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Planting a forest

September 7th, 2011

If you visit Babylonstoren now and take a stroll down to the dam at the far end of the farm, you’ll notice a new woodland ...

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