This is how the farm was in our first month of being here - before the fire! Before the houses were finished, before the gardens were planted, before, before, before...
We had just completed the wire fencing job on the white picket fence around Lavender Cottage, to ensure that our two rather large hounds, suitably named Hobbes and Baloo after their cartoon namesakes, would remain confined when necessary - and, of course, to have an accredited "pet-friendly" establishment in the future.
Note the large alien vegetation in the bottom left photo which soon got burned out! Now it has regrown after the fire to about 1m already and we are using poison donated by the DWAF Working for Water program to create areas of completely rehabilitated Fynbos land.
Personal note from author: One sometimes wonders what it is all about when your neighbour goes out hunting for the indigenous Rooikat under the auspices of them taking lambs... And that Fynbos behind Baloo in the picture of him with the Red Hot Pokers, well that is already all gone, for sheep food. I ask merely, what happens to that land if the rains don't come? Where is the respect, where is the love, where is the conscience, are we not all connected?
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