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    Aug 31, 2020 5 minutes

    Pietersarel de Bruyn

    Owner of Herbs-Aplenty and Steampunk Distillery

    Pietersarel and his wife, Susann, moved here from Paarl 16 years ago. “We used all our savings to buy this Port Jackson and hakea farm. There was absolutely nothing else here.”

    They were really looking for a patch of land in the Boland, but, says Pietersarel, property costs R1 million per hectare there. “They say you will only get a piece of old land there in one of three ways: either you marry for it, or you inherit it, or you buy it on a third bankruptcy auction!”

    It’s hard to believe this was once just bare earth. Today at Goedgegewe, their 40 ha organic farm, you will find a factory and an expanse of fields filled with herbs such as rosemary, geraniums and lavender. Their main business is the export of herbs, but they also make a range of essential

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