On a River String
Farm stays Keurbooms Valley Farm stays Keurbooms Valley Today’s environmen- tally aware farmers offer visitors more than just cuddly creatures to pet. Marion Whitehead found a farm stay with a difference in the Garden Route’s Keurbooms River valley. Green pearls on a river string The Egyptian geese are more skittish than the blesbok. The vigilant parents shep- approving nod from connoisseurs of just that – you wait while owner Ingo to move between the new Garden herding five goslings along the wall the slow food movement. It’s tucked Vennemann goes to scoop your order Route National Park (Wilderness, of the trout dam below my chalet let into a bend of the Keurbooms River from the tank of eating-size brown Knysna and Tsitsikamma), Soetkraal out an urgent warning honk as I go outside De Vlugt, a sleepy village on or rainbow trout. Nature Reserve and Baviaanskloof out onto the deck to admire the Prince Alfred’s Pass which connects ‘In nature, things take time,’ says Wilderness Area. run the farm and guest accommoda- INSET TOP: Mareeán van Rooyen has fun view. Frogs pick up the chorus and Knysna with the Langkloof. Young Ingo. He and his wife, Naomi, are These farmers have diversified into tion of four timber chalets and four camping in one of the blesbok go back to mowing the trout in the hatchery thrive in spark- founder members of the Middle tourism, giving visitors a glimpse into tipis. Apart from fishing, hiking, the tipis at Outeniqua lawn under pecan trees freshly ling mountain water and practically Keurbooms Conservancy, a group ‘green’ life on the land.
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