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Swartland Botanics.

number of circumstances brought me to the dusty little town of Koringberg in 2016, and what I discovered here was still pure farmland: wherever I looked there were golden wheatfields, wind pumps, sheep and wide open plains – with bakkies, tractors and even harvesters droning

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