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A user-friendly makeover for a holiday home
I received a call from a previous client to come on site and see what I could suggest to make their holiday home more user-friendly and generally improve the look of the house.
About those pink patches
When is being called ‘Snowflake’ or ‘Pinky’ not good? When vitiligo is involved, says Kim Dyson.
Don’t let late blight catch you napping
Late blight (Phytophthora infestans) is a fungus in a hurry, and may already have done much damage if you’re not awake and watching out for the conditions which favour it.
Caring for carrots
Ways of keeping your crop healthy and profitable.
Cucumbers save the day
Janie Cilliers became a farmer out of necessity, but soon fell in love with it. And, after much hard toil, seven years down the line JC Trading in Brits has grown from four tunnels to 29, delivering nearly 25 000 cucumbers a week. Lindi van Rooyen reports.
Perseverance pays off at High Heaven farm
In 2003, Nomthunzi Nduzulwana swapped nursing for agriculture.
Her perseverance has guided her through many challenges to a new future on High Heaven farm near East London. Mike Burgess spoke to her.
Greenhouse farming at Dube Tradeport AgriZone
Well-established vegetable grower Qutom Farms has taken out a lease on advanced greenhouses at Dube TradePort’s AgriZone, allowing the company to expand its regional supply. Robyn Joubert spoke to director Derrick Baird.
Labournomics
Why the recent wage increases will negatively impact the SA economy as a whole, and why the government needs a lesson in economics.
Decide in haste, repent at leisure
Bad short-term solutions can produce disastrous long-term results, hurting those you’re trying to help.
Breakthrough with red blotch disease in grapes
Scientists have identified a virus found in US vineyards as the culprit, and are certain it will be found worldwide.
African leafy vegetables: easy and sustainable
‘African leafy vegetables’ is a term used to describe indigenous, indigenised and recently introduced plant species collected by African women as a source of food for their families for centuries.
A shift in pace for land reform?
Speaking in parliament during the debate on the State of the Nation address, minister of Rural Development and Land Refom, Gugile Nkwinti, rejected claims that land reform had failed.
Four suspected stock thieves caught
Four suspected stock thieves, aged between 21 and 63 were recently arrested in the Msinsini area of KwaZulu-Natal, after the police found three allegedly stolen goats tied up at their homestead.
Local whisky best in the world
South Africa’s first single grain whisky, Bain’s Cape Mountain Whisky, has been announced as the World’s Best Grain Whisky at the annual Whisky Magazine’s World Whisky Awards (WWA) held in London last week.
Droogfontein Merino Stud Production sale
Highest (ram): R33 000
Labour basics
One of the many challenges you’ll face as your farming business grows is deciding how many people to employ, writes Roelof Bezuidenhout.
Farms – Nice view, nice price
More and more farms are being bought solely for lifestyle purposes, as an escape from city life. This could soon see a farm’s selling price based not only on its production value, but also on ‘aesthetics’. Lindi van Rooyen reports.
Hoogstede Merino Stud Production Sale
Highest (ram): R21 000
Sericea SAVES
They don’t call this amazing legume ‘prosperity lucerne’ for nothing, and yet again it proves its worth.
A recycled braai: breakfast after the night before
So this family holds a major braai with food of limitless quality and abundance. Somewhere around midnight, the well-fed masses went home, leaving this writer with the singular task of cleaning up.
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