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Locally grown food, stone walls, and peach pips underfoot: this is as real as it gets!

Olive Stone Farm, in Church Street, Montagu, delightfully combines a working farm with luxurious cottage accommodation.

“We have 700 Frantoio and Mission olives, 100-odd Lohmann Brown, Orpington and Bosvelder chickens, 20 South African Mutton Merino sheep, and three mixed-breed cattle (castrated bull Skollie, cow Betty, and her calf). We also have six cats,” says owner Wanda Meyer.

She and her husband Johan, previously from Kleindrif in Limpopo, are just six months into their ownership. They had almost given

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