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• Warmer, drier, and time to harvest.

  The start of summer brings higher temperatures, and has finally put an end to the extraordinarily late winter rains. The dams are full, the vegetation lush. The flowers are still around but not as great as at the beginning of September. The farm and the nature reserve are getting ready for the summer heat, but before we can settle down with a gin & tonic on our stoep, our farmers have their work cut out: sheep have been sheared, and oats, canola and wheat need to be harvested and baled.

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