If you are visiting Fairview during the next few months you will see an interesting development at the farm. Over the past month our farm team has been laying out our new organic garden near the wine tasting room. This working garden includes organic vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers, which will all be used on the farm. Diane Back has been carefully planning the garden and there is even a South African flag laid out in various vegetables and flowers! The farm’s peacocks have taken a liking to some of the vegetable leaves (especially the broccoli!) but aside from this everything has been going smoothely.
We have been fortunate to have developed a large base of loyal visitors to the farm throughout the year and this garden will supply the Goatshed restuarant with much of its fresh fruit and vegetables where possible. We hope that you will soon be able to have a meal including your wine and cheese, where everything has come right off the Fairview property! Diane always makes sure that our tasting room is well stocked with fresh flowers and now even more of these will be right off the farm.
Aside from the benefit of organically grown local produce for our restaurant, the garden will also provide additional crops for those living on the farm, and possibly for sale to guests too. We have been running a small garden on a different site on the farm for the past year and the amount of high quality vegetables that we have produced has exceeded the requirements of the restaurant. Our farm manager, Donald Mouton, has been working with a small team of previously unemployed and retired ladies from the community. Their hard work has seen the initial project flourish and has lead to the establishment of this new garden.
“When I was growing up on the Fairview farm, my grandfather and father had many different crops and livestock, in addition to vineyards. Over the years, we have focussed on our vineyards and our goat herd and I am confident that this attention has paid off in the quality of our wines and cheeses. Recently we decided to develop a small organic garden near to our Goat Tower and I am excited at the possibilities that this holds. We are always looking for ways to improve the experience of our guests while trying to remain true to what Fairview represents. This return to farming and the provenence of the soil is a welcome initiative and one that I think our guests will appreciate. The proof, I trust, will be in the eating!” Charles Back
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