Grow your own veggies (workshop for kids)
- R200 p.p.
- 04 July 2022, 10:00 – 12:30
- Presented by Brent Reid
- Please meet us at the Farm Shop
Only 21 places are available
Note: This workshop is for children between 8 and 12 years old.
Orange carrots, bright red beets and cool green cucumbers. Did you know you can grow your own rainbow of colours? Bring your folks along for a dig in Babylonstoren’s sprawling gardens where we’ll learn to grow our very own veggies with Brent Reid from the Babylonstoren garden team. This will be a morning filled with picking, nibbling and planting. Discover frilly leaves and dig out strong root vegetables. Sow seeds, make cuttings and start potting your own plants. By the end of this day, you’ll have greener fingers than the Grinch who stole Christmas! You’ll also get some vegetable seedlings to take along and grow at home.
Light snack is included.
Break bread with our master baker
- R850 p.p.
- 06 July 2022, 10:00 – 15:00
- Presented by Tina Jewell, master baker Peachy
- Please meet us at the Farm Shop
Only 15 places are available
Flour it up and learn to bake bread with Tina Jewell and our master baker Peachy. Guests are invited to dust their hands and put their backs into some kneading, proving and baking, before taking a guided garden tour and enjoying a rustic farm lunch in our Spice House. Peachy will share her secret recipes and shaping methods so you can impress at home, while Tina helps each guest make their own sourdough starter to take home and nurture there.
Steaming coffee from our Lekker Room is served upon arrival.
Lunch at the Spice House is included.
Explore the magic world of mushrooms
- R850 p.p.
- 13 July 2022, 10:00 – 15:00
- Presented by Alex Bosman & the garden team
- Please meet us at the Farm Shop
Only 15 places available
Spend the day with our head gardener, Alex Bosman, to discover more about the function and uses of fungi at Babylonstoren. Walk the farm to better understand how fungi play a vital part in our garden, from plant health to insect and pathogen biocontrol. Enter our mushroom room to harvest your own fresh oyster mushrooms for lunch. Alex will share and demonstrate a few tricks to cultivate beautiful oyster mushrooms. Under his guidance, you’ll fill your own oak logs with shiitake plugs, to grow (and harvest!) at home.
Steaming coffee from our Lekker Room is served upon arrival.
Lunch at the Greenhouse Restaurant is included.
Harness the golden glow of earthy root spices
- R850 p.p.
- 20 July 2022, 10:00 – 15:00
- Presented by Gundula Deutschländer
- Please meet us at the Farm Shop
Only 15 places are available
Escape the dreary Winelands winter and join master gardener Gundula Deutschländer for an earthy masterclass in root spices. Be prepared to get your hands dirty for this one, as you’ll be digging for turmeric and ginger gold. Spices like these are best harvested in winter when the plants are dormant and their superpowers preserved in the roots.
Turmeric, with its sunny flavour and bright colouring properties, will be a highlight of the day. The class will explore the various ways to harness its warm glow throughout the year – either fresh or dried, as a shot or in tea, fried or baked and even for paint or dye. Gundula will share her wisdom on growing and harvesting various other spices that you could try growing at home. Set in Babylonstoren’s ever-amiable Spice House, the class concludes with a hearty, belly-warming meal.
Steaming coffee from our Lekker Room is served upon arrival.
Lunch at the Spice House is included.
Sharpen your fruit-tree pruning skills
- R850 p.p.
- 27 July 2022, 10:00 – 15:00
- Presented by Anton Roux
- Please meet us at the Farm Shop
Only 15 places are available
A good trim goes a long way to ensure a good crop of fruit next season! Spend the day learning from Anton Roux, our pruning pro, as he guides you on how and where to prune fruit trees into shape – be it peach, plum, quince or fig.
Steaming coffee from our Lekker Room is served upon arrival.
Lunch at the Greenhouse Restaurant is included.
