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Organic Blueberry Farm, Rheenendal 🫐
Regenerative cattle grazing. 🐄
Pick-Your-Own Blueberries days🫐
Home of community project👩🏾‍🌾
Https://www.homtinifarm.co.za/ Homtini Guest Farm with its stunning views of the Garden Route's Outeniqua Mountains is a 90Ha working farm nestling in the indigenous forest overlooking the Homtini pass. It lies along the old Seven-Passes Route, looks out

over the famous Millwood Forest Reserve and yet is only 20 minutes from the coast and the bustling resort town of Knysna.

03/06/2026

Boring problems make for fun solutions!

30/05/2026

Welcome to the farm’s two newest members!

This black and white baby girl shares a birthday with Erin, which feels extra special! We’ve named her baby berry (after Erin’s nickname, Erie berry) and the brown one, baby blue (because he was born today just one day before the blue moon!)

06/05/2026

Homtini’s runner ducks or “The Dooches” as they’ve lovingly been come to be known, are an amazing addition to the integrated growing systems. Because they don’t have webbed feet and round beaks they can happily hunt and forage in between the blueberries without damaging the shallow root systems, and serve as our primary pest management.

They have similar dietary requirements to chickens but require slighly more protein and appreciate some extra Vitamin B3 supplementation (found in Brewers Yeast).

They sleep in a duckhouse on wood shaving bedding. We cover any poos and wet spots with a bucket of shavings every morning and spray with LAB (Lactic Acid Bacteria - cultivated with rice water and milk). This ensures the house stays smell free and helps the decomposition. (Hilariously, the spray bottle we use had a previous life as Erin’s lavender oil bedding spray and now the duck house smells faintly of lavender!)

Every 6 months we clean out the house and mixing the bedding with blueberry chippings and weeds from the fields creates around 2.5 cubes of compost! (More details in a future post!).

Ducks are “waterfowl” and absolutely love water to wash and play in. The existing duck pond was dug below the clay level which causes it to drain. We’ve tried to wrap the base in thick plastic tarp which seems to have worked now with the massive rains, but a if anyone has suggestions for a longer term solution please let us know!

19/04/2026

Autumn update from Homtini farm!

Things are slowing down which gives us time to focus on longer term health of the berries.

This includes a light prune for dead and diseased wood in the inside of the bushes before the bigger dormant prune in June/July. The blankets of well matured wood chip is the real magic; protecting the roots from the cold and feeding the microorganisms in the soil that will become food for the berries come spring.

Stay tuned for some more detailed blueberry care chats closer to winter pruning!

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07/01/2026

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Choose organic, regenerative for best quality and nutrition! 🫐🌿We can’t wait to test the tomatoes 👯‍♀️🍅
20/11/2025

Choose organic, regenerative for best quality and nutrition! 🫐🌿

We can’t wait to test the tomatoes 👯‍♀️🍅

Open Wednesdays and Saturdays 🌿Come to the farm for bread, coffee and fresh veg!
19/11/2025

Open Wednesdays and Saturdays 🌿

Come to the farm for bread, coffee and fresh veg!

The blueberries are almost finished, it’s almost time for the bushes to rest. 🌿No more blueberry picking until next seas...
14/11/2025

The blueberries are almost finished, it’s almost time for the bushes to rest. 🌿

No more blueberry picking until next season.

But we’ll be at the Wild Oats market for a few more weeks 🫐🌿

07/11/2025

We had such a beautiful day on Sunday! 🫐

Blueberry picking, a market made up of real farmers selling their produce and live music by the talented 🫐🌿

Join us this Sunday for the last picking day of the season! ☺️

Thank you for the video 💜

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Homtini Guest Farm
Knysna
6576

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+27443890029

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