Permaculture Gardening

With our food forest garden we are creating a show case to prove that it is possible to grow healthy food in South Africa at an Accommodation and to take foodsecurity into one's own hands.

Browse our plant list of edible species below and try growing them too or come and experience their fresh taste on your next Plett holiday.

Complete Plant List

How to grow your own food

Strawberries

December 28, 2021Axel Will

We planted strawberries all over as ground cover throughout the pandemic. Strawberries by March 2020 growing well on one of our first permaculture hugelbeds.

Nasturtium - Edible Flowers

December 24, 2021Axel Will

The ideal ground cover plant Nasturtiums are easy to grow very beautiful annual flowers that brighten up every garden and call all the pollinators to the food forest. Not only do...

100+ plants growing in our Garden Route Food Forest

October 5, 2021Axel Will

LIST OF GARDEN PLANTS (latest update: October 2021) ID Variety Plants (Oct. 21) 1 Chilli 5 2 Pawpaw 16 3 Marigold 1 4 Nasturtium 35 5 Spekboom 6 6 Blueberries...

Growing Tomatillos in Plettenberg Bay Food Forest

September 8, 2020Axel Will

Tomatillos are a small, green Mexican fruit with a Japanese lantern-type shell surrounding it. While they’re from the tomato family, and do look like small, green tomatoes inside the papery...