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It’s 10 January and time for our first full-moon walk of 2020. As usual, we have accepted the regular invitation extended by Koringberg farmer’s wife Bregda Mostert to join her on the path that leads up the mountain from her “back yard”. From the top

In 2012, a jubilant Kelly McQue announced on Facebook that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer eight months before and had healed herself – without any conventional Western medical interventions or having a health qualification of any kind – us

Newlands Forest, Cape Town We live in a small forest in Newlands, Cape Town. I cannot think of a better place to be locked down and out of work. Wherever I stand and whichever window I look out of, trees cover me or look back at me. Way back then, in

Most people walk for health reasons – some want to become fit(ter), others want to lose weight, and some simply want to clear their head and raise their spirits. Whatever the reason, if you want to reap the benefits, you should walk quite briskly. Bu

Gravel. In modern times, this is something we don’t experience often enough. You are compelled to slow down, feel the ridges in the road. You want to wind down the window, turn off the radio, take deeper breaths, inhale the fragrances around you, loo

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Makes 200 ml Preparation time 5 minutes Infusing time 6–8 hours • 10 g dried cannabis flowers• 200 ml locally sourced raw honey • cheesecloth or pantyhose• kitchen twine• a glass jar with a lid• a large pot or slow cooker Arrange the cannabis flowers

I grew up in a small Northern Cape town – okay, technically a small city – and it was wonderful. I knew all the local heroes and villains, played cricket in the streets until it was too dark to see anything, rode my bicycle everywhere and stole fruit

A READER’S GARDEN Within six years of starting a new garden based on permaculture principles on a farm in the Free State, Dorothée Dehon has created a bountiful source of fresh organic vegetables and fruit. She tells Maja Palm how this came about. Sh

Pietersarel and his wife, Susann, moved here from Paarl 16 years ago. “We used all our savings to buy this Port Jackson and hakea farm. There was absolutely nothing else here.” They were really looking for a patch of land in the Boland, but, says Pie

Never is a long time, in the words of the Roxette song, but here at Platteland we truly never thought we would ever publish an article about dagga. But here it is, on page 98 of this issue – and it’s not just a story about cannabis for medicinal use,

Do not expect to find a mall in Tesselaarsdal – taking a ramble is the main activity here. You can get a cooldrink or emergency supplies at one of two shops: J&S Store or Amadina Food, within walking distance of each other. Make sure to pop in at the

Blue Willow plates don’t need much introduction. They were created in 1779 in England by Thomas Turner and soon made their way to other parts of the world, appearing on tables across Europe, the Americas and, yes, South Africa. They took pride of pla

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man,” Winston Churchill once said – and frankly, even postcard-perfect pastoral scenes seem incomplete without a few of these graceful creatures grazing in the picture.

I planted four lemon trees in our garden at home about 12 years ago. We have never sprayed the trees with any pesticides – we feed them twice a year with Epsom salts and apply compost around the trees once a year. One of the Eureka trees started bear