SA Country Life

Author Interview

For eco-evangelist Helen Moffett, climatic challenges have had a lifelong place on her agenda. As the child of an environmental botanist and organic gardener growing up in the Klein Karoo, “we were constantly water-stressed. An early memory is of our dam drying up and my parents taking us for a walk on the dam floor,” she explains.

Many years later,

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