As of today we are able to provide you with 3 different boxes of produce that you can get couriered to your home or you can collect them from the Farmer Angus office. The office location link is here. Please note that we close orders for the week every Thursday and dispatch the next Monday. […] The post 3 boxes now available for courier to your home or collection from the Farmer Angus office. appeared first on Farmer Angus ..read more

My friend Felix had the great idea to understand more about our clients. In each box of eggs there is a piece of paper with the following instructions. Dear Eggcellent client. We would love you to share  the following with us; 1. Why do you buy our eggs? 2. What is your favourite dish to […] The post Dear Eggcellent client – a survey appeared first on Farmer Angus ..read more

The relationship between good wine and healthy soils is as old as wine itself, but at Farmer Angus Wines we have taken this a step further. We have been sequestering carbon into the soils of our vineyards and pastures on the Spier Wine Farm in Stellenbosch since we began in 2009, and have taken a verified 25,385tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere since we began measuring this in 2012. Carbon credit revenue has contributed to the farm in a process that has been impactful for our staff. Half of the net income gets paid to our farm workers. You can read about our carbon story on the registry that s ..read more

I was born in 1973 and so the title of this blog is alluding to work my mother did in 1970 which I, in a way, continued 54 years later. I was genetically predisposed to make these labels in the artistic manner my mother practiced. Art was the only subject that I got a F for at school so sometimes you have to wait long to find your artistic expression to manifest. My mother’s Masters degree in History of Art was focused on bronze work and so after university she went to the UK where she made the brass rubbings below that hung in our family home on the farm where we grew up. In her later years ..read more

Not even the most ardent supporter of conventional/chemical/poisonous agriculture can claim that the chart below (60% increase in the use of poisons over 30 years) represents progress. What is even more scary is that over this period of time global cropland has decreased by approximately 1 million square kilometres. Despite this increased use of pesticides etc we lose 20 – 40% of crops to pests and disease. Most pesticides damage a broad spectrum of beneficial insets and microorganisms, not just the target pest. This disrupts the biological controls that are essential in keeping pets and dise ..read more

Ever since one of my mentors, Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms in Virginia, USA, wrote about the 10 things he would do in the USA if he were running for President, I have been thinking about what are the top 10 things we could do to our the beloved country. Joel’s list is here. Mine is below. Execute every rapist and child trafficker. Until our women and children are safe we are going nowhere as a country. I have heard folk say that the death penalty is not a deterrent. That is only because they don’t understand English. A rapist or child trafficker who is dead is permanently deterred from comm ..read more

It is of all the insults that I have received, the one I am happiest about. It took place yesterday morning on Cape Talk with Lester Kiewit. You can click here to listen. I start speaking at 11.45. It was a discussion around the boat that docked and stunk out Cape Town last week with 19,000 cattle on board. Fortunately Lester gave me a chance to have the last word. I talked about how South Africa could be fed regeneratively. I wrote this blog on the subject a few years ago. It is possible but not probable that we could be fed regeneratively. Furthermore if we embraced regenerative agricul ..read more

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I updated my blog on the meat that we offer that will never make it into City Press. Please click here. Thanks. Also please make time to watch this amazing talk by Allan Savory on how cattle grazing can reverse desertification. We graze our cattle in the way he refers to in this TED talk. Allan Savory TED talk     ..read more

We last increased our price for our Pasture Reared Eggs in March of 2011. The picture above was taken this afternoon after I received the Roche Yolk Colour Fan whose values were set in 1931. Our egg is a 15. The highest number on the scale. The eggs you buy in the shop are closer to a 1 which is also in picture. The reason is simply that our chickens get to eat a lot of grasses and legumes growing in our pastures whereas the only green thing the battery hens (24 million out of 25 million laying hens in South Africa)  and the “free range” hens see is the overalls of the worker. Here is a ..read more