Honeymoon Farm, organic vegetable, honey, free range egg and lamb homestead. Publisher of the Moonbloom vegetable and herb planting calendar since 2016. Writer for the GoPlatteland magazine. Online store - Plettenberg Bay, Garden Route, South Africa.
Moonbloom
Planting Calendar
2027
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The Moonbloom lunar cycle planting calendar was created to help you in knowing when and what to plant in the month to create a simple, healthy planting cycle in your organic vegetable and herb garden. Especially in our busy lifestyles, it can be completely overwhelming. It’a simple method using the climate zones of South Africa, lunar cycles and companion planting. The basic theory behind the moon is to grow your above-ground crops when the moon is waxing and your below-ground crops when the moon is waning. The moon helps in a small way and how its effects gravity and thus water on Earth, and gets you into a lovely simple cycle and certainly gets you planting! Like I say to many folk, it is not the law, it’s a wonderful guide.
GAYE BOSHOFF
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About
Honeymoon Farm is situated in Harkerville just outside Plettenberg Bay on the beautiful Garden Route of South Africa. The Boshoff's are aspiring subsistence farmers, growing their own organic vegetables, keeping chickens and hives for free range eggs and honey, and raising their own lamb.
The 11Ha property which was back in 2001 - an overgrown quarry - thick with a monoculture of Eucalyptus trees, has slowly transformed using regenerative agriculture. They have cleaned up horrible dongas and made them into dams, planted 1000's of indigenous plants and trees, and still very busy creating a biodiverse ecosystem, bringing back the bird and animal life.
Free range colourful eggs are collected daily. A delicious blend of indigenous flower and Bluegum honey is harvested from February to April. Seasonal organic vegetables and herbs are harvested throughout the year.
Gaye is a remote freelance graphic designer, self publisher and writer for the go!Platteland magazine. To upkeep the homestead and be a deadline working mom, can be difficult, thus the Moonbloom planting calendar was created in 2016 to simply, but concisely help her in her edible garden. Her calendars are especially popular and sold throughout South Africa.
Pieter owns Treepro, a highly experienced civil works company with 25 years on the Garden Route - www.treepro.co.za. All excess wood from his clearing work is churned into bulk firewood which can be collected from the farm. He also rents out light industrial property and owns Green Valley Storage - self storage units to rent in Wittedrift.
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The Moonbloom biodynamic planting calendar was created for my friends out there who enjoy a little more. An holistic, ecological and ethical approach to gardening and farming that views the garden or farm as a self-sustaining living organism. The cosmic rhythms are one of the key principles where gardening activities are timed according to lunar and planetary cycles. Together with the Sidereal Astronomical Zodiac, full veggie and herb planting list, climate zones of South Africa and companion planting - the calendar is complex, but simple in design.
Honeymoon Farm, organic vegetable, honey, free range egg and lamb homestead. Publisher of the Moonbloom vegetable and herb planting calendar since 2016. Online store - Plettenberg Bay, Garden Route, South Africa.