Tag: farmers
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Landscapes in and around Stanford
Globally it are the farmers who are the large scale landscapers and that includes the farmers in and around our village. On our sister blog ‘Elementary Posters‘ we start this week with a full color serie of landscapes; all shot during the morning of Monday 15 july. Here a B&W preview.
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Vineyards and their spin-off
It’s amazing to see the developments of the different wine producing farms in Stanford since our arrival here in July last year. Not only new vineyards are planted but we also noticed that wines from this village are merely exported to upmarket Europe and North America. While most wine-tasting tourists limit themselves to visit known…
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Not a GM Cow
Sometimes we, like most people we guess, don’t see things in perspective. ‘Minor’ items getting out of proportions and priorities mixed up. Adobe Photoshop (Ps) is an outstanding tool to express one’s ‘proportional’ feelings. Yesterday we saw our village (Stanford, South Africa) in a different perspective resulting in the remake of the main road (Victoria…
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Pincushion and a farm with a view
The larger Stanford area is the South African hotspot of Fynbos and most of the Fynbos flowers are exported around the globe. Partly the flowers are harvested from cultivated plants and partly in a environmental responsible way in the open ‘veld’. This month and the few following ones some farmers and their staff are full…
Life in the Overberg 