Evergreen Urban Farm

11/08/2025

For the last 5 years we have been farming at Rocklands Farm in Simon's Town. It's been a whirlwind of ups and downs. Please follow us on Instagram, for more news!

18/06/2025

An egg - small, pale and fragile - is easily overlooked, but our home hen's first egg today was a celebration. Her comb looked pinker yesterday and she woke up wanting cuddles. She kept running back inside instead of scrabbling in the garden. By the time she hopped into a sock drawer I was holding my breath. About an hour later, it was there among the socks, as hot as her feet when she's happy.

31/03/2025

My running watch accidentally recorded a bit of my day at the farm. It explains why I feel like a headless chicken.

24/03/2025

Bet their bums are toasty. Baby agamas snuggling on a rock in our garden. There are 5 that we have seen, they are eating ants.

31/12/2024

Jo's newsletter is a must if you yearn for your own homestead.

Taking stock and making meaning.

07/10/2024

It's getting hot, hot, hot but our sheep Gloria+ Gordon have slipped off their heavy wool coats and into their summer bodies, thanks to star sheep shearer Marx Meyer.

30/09/2024

Going bananas! This large banana flower keeps curling open to reveal more and more bunches.

20/08/2024

Never been so excited to see bananas.

09/01/2024

Our 'Williams' bananas are growing fast in this warm weather. Our shower water gets diverted to them+ we also give lots of vermicompost.

04/12/2023

The queen of our garden, our wondrous lime tree. There is no big secret to what she needs, I just love her.