Is ‘Conservation Agriculture’
how we farm for the future?
Regenerative Farming Success
With Bertie Coetzee from Lowerland Farm
Learn how one pioneering SA farmer is putting nutrition first
Our next Harvest Club meetup is on Thursday, 24 August and for the first time ever, we’ll be livestreaming our live event with the help of ShareScreen Africa! You can now either join us physically, in person – 5 for 5:30pm at The Harvest Fork & Farm restaurant outside Stanford, Western Cape – OR you can join in via Zoom!
We’ll hear about ‘conservation farming’, what it means for the health of our soil, the nutrition of our food and the impact on the environment.
Our speaker is Bertie Coetzee from Lowerland in Prieska, Northern Cape, and his talk is set to be a fascinating story of his journey and experiments with regenerative farming and the link between nutritious food, our health and the farming practices that grow it.
This event will be relevant to farmers, food makers, and all of us food consumers who care about where our food comes from and how it is grown.
You can also enjoy connecting with other like-minded people interested in quality food, better health, natural farming and growing, and co-creating healthier local food systems.
Surely THIS is Farming for the Future?
Farming for nutrition over volume.
“We as farmers must put out nutritious food to the world.
Not just volumes of food, but nutritious food.”
– Bertie Coetzee
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Choose either ZOOM or come join us in Stanford!
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NOTE: This event is free, but booking is essential due to a limited number of seats.
Aiming for no inputs from outside
Can we rethink agriculture?
“Our mission is to farm in an integrated, circular permaculture system to minimise inputs from outside, to maximise soil health and to focus on healthy soils and quality produce,” says Bertie.
Bertie Coetzee’s family has owned Lowerland since 1965, farming initially with sheep and then cattle, similar to other farmers in the area. But when they introduced vineyards in the year 2000, no-one had even considered it was possible or viable to make quality wines in their red Kalahari sand – and without any chemical inputs or synthetic fertilizers nogal.
“Making this wine is like writing and recording a song,” says Bertie. “If the song is good, the recording is actually simple. If you have the basics and the philosophy right in the vineyard, making the wine should just be an extension of that.”
Our Venue is The Harvest Fork & Farm, Stanford
We’ll be meeting and livestreaming from this family-friendly restaurant (and working farm) situated just outside Stanford on the Stanford Hills road.
Lisa and Adele have kindly offered us their space for the evening and if you’ll be joining us there physically, they will also have the following available for you:
Pizza!
A full cash bar.
About Your Host
Robynn de Klerk – or ‘Collaborator In Chief’
I started Harvest Club because I feel that small, regenerative farmers will save the world. But they need support.
The global industrial food system, with its chemical farming, feed lots and mass supermarkets, disconnects people from the source of their food, with unsustainable and disastrous consequences.
My mission is to help support those regenerative farmers and producers – the humble heroes healing our planet – through collaborating, sharing knowledge and opportunities, and creating a better win-win food system.
About Harvest Club
A movement to build a new, healthier, regenerative food system.
Harvest Club is a rapidly growing network aiming to help regenerative farmers, homesteaders and local food makers become wildly successful; while enabling better food systems for locals to more directly support those farmers and food makers and access vibrantly healthy food for themselves.
This is why Harvest Club hosts regular events, as well as offering a group buying club for the local Hermanus, Stanford & surrounding areas, making it easier for locals to buy directly from exceptional food makers, regenerative farmers and ethical producers – from grass-fed dairy, to grass-finished meat, organic nuts and fruits, and chemical-free products.
It all started with this surprising, collaborative event that took place in March this year, which suddenly took off and had various unexpected but remarkable outcomes.
We’ve since had three events with speakers exploring various fascinating topics, such as fermented foods, Korean Natural Farming methods, the role of the gut microbiome, the importance of the soil’s ‘microbiome’ and the case for chemical free, natural and regenerative forms of agriculture.
And now, our fourth event will be going live via Zoom too – thanks to the huge interest in what Bertie Coetzee has to share with us about his conservation farming methods.
Please come join us on Thursday, 24 August, as we continue to learn, connect, collaborate and grow!
Thursday, 24 August @ 17:30 SAST
Come learn about ‘Conservation Farming’ and what it means for us. Can farmers put nutrition and soil health first, and still be successful (without chemicals)?
Now via Livestream!
ShareScreen Africa is a Pan-African conservation-based tutorial initiative that aims to freely share knowledge and broaden skillsets. They’ll kindly be assisting us to host our Zoom session.
Enjoy Our Harvest Table
Joining in person? Discover and taste new foodie products and meet local food producers creating wonderful foods and drinks.
Organic/Heirloom Seed Swap
Bring your organic, heirloom seeds to swap and share with others at the venue.