Dassiesfontein

The restaurant at Dassiesfontein offer visitors generous portions of traditional Boerekos accompanied by a beer or a steaming hot cup of koffie. On most Saturdays diners can enjoy a local speciality, curried tripe, and on Sundays they offer a large buffet.

Saturday market

A delicious hand made pattie with onion, garlic and soya sauce inside. Fresh lettuce, tomato and special California Sauce. All on a fresh bun. Everything is sourced locally and fresh.

Home baked biscuits

Biscuits are made of childhood memories. Hours in the kitchen spent in the kitchen. Watching and waiting in anticipation. Small or large, soft or crunchy. Iced, or covered with chocolate. Sandwiched together or packed full of fruity bits and nuts. Made with flour, made with oats. Sweetened with sugar, honey, spiced, plain. Dunked or spread […]

Oma Mieme’s

If you are on the way to the Augrabies Falls or Kgalagadi you won’t go hungry at Oma Miemie’s farm stall, situated in the Main Street of Kenhardt. They offer everything from breakfast to ‘potbrood’, ‘vetkoek’ and milk tart. It is also well stocked with a wide selection of marmalades, jams, jellies and chutneys as […]

What is an artisan

What are Artisan foods? Everyone else seems to know the difference except me. And I think it’s time I got caught up in something I know very little about. An artisan (from Italian: artigiano) is a skilled manual worker who makes items that may be functional or strictly decorative, including furniture, clothing, jewellery, household items, […]

Cowdray Farm Shop

Driving through the rolling South Down hills around Midhurst, its impossible not to notice that the window frames of many of the buildings in the area are pained a bright striking yellow.  Signifying that they are part of the Cowdray Estate.

O’Hagen’s Sausages

[Edit] Closed after Covid but see them around now and again When Bill O’Hagen moved to England from South Africa in 1974, the English sausage had earned the dubious distinction of being the bin end of the market. They were stuffed full of rusk and scrap meat to keep costs down and looked as well […]

Florida farm stall

Stock up on farm butter and freshly baked loaves at the Florida Farm Stall while the kids feed the animals in the touch farm. You will also find waterblommetjies, venison pies, bokkoms (dried fish biltong), German sauerkraut, gourmet mustard, quail eggs and pickled garlic.

Quirky farm stalls

Pucketty Farm on the west side of Hlogoma Mountain is close to the village of Underberg, in the foothills of the Southern Drakensberg and it offers visitors a unique country style experience All the products are homemade. Baskets overflowing with fresh home baked pies, quiches, pates and puddings. There are locally made farm cheeses with […]