A beginner’s guide to Karoo stargazing without expensive equipment
The best approach is to begin small. Learn the Southern Cross and follow the Milky Way. Notice how the sky changes from month to month. The Karoo will do the rest.
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The reading culture behind the Karoo’s literary festivals
What makes a place Karoo?
How the Tankwa came to host two very different communities
A potentially historic El Niño is developing. What should the Karoo prepare for?
The lost art of the farm pantry
How the ostrich feather king made, lost and rebuilt his Karoo fortune
Karoo Lifestyle
The reading culture behind the Karoo’s literary festivals
Karoo literary festivals connect contemporary books with a much older culture of storytelling. They might seem like a recent addition to Karoo life, but they reflect a region that has long used words to cross distance.
Why old blankets, enamelware and riempie furniture endure
What makes a proper Karoo lamb dish?
The town built around a monthly journey to church
The transport crisis facing rural schoolchildren
Why heritage homes are suddenly popular again
The loneliness and beauty of rural life in the modern world
Culture & Heritage
What makes a place Karoo?
Perhaps the most accurate definition is that the Karoo begins wherever dryness becomes the organising fact of life: where water determines settlement, distance defines community and people learn that survival depends not on conquering the land, but on understanding its limits.
The lost art of the farm pantry
How the ostrich feather king made, lost and rebuilt his Karoo fortune
The Karoo's unsung Art Deco trail
The great captaincy that once ruled in the Central Karoo
"The prettiest village I have ever seen"
The surprising role of Beaufort West in South African literature
Farming & Environment
A potentially historic El Niño is developing. What should the Karoo prepare for?
An unusually powerful climate system is developing and will overlap with the Karoo’s hottest months. The appropriate response is to watch the regional forecasts closely and prepare for heat and water stress while there's still time to do so.
The ancient underground life of Karoo termites
Wind farms are changing the work of bird conservationists
Could indigenous plants create new income for Karoo farms?
Why good grazing does not always mean an easy year for Karoo farmers
What the Karoo Winter Wool Festival revealed about rural manufacturing
