The best peach recipes and preserves
Bottle, baking or preserving peaches is part of a tradition older than many of the farms themselves.
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How the wool boom changed the Karoo farmhouse
The Karoo farmhouse is a domestic archive and a reminder that even the most isolated home was connected to a much wider world.
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.
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.