Today we celebrate Valentine’s Day, the festival of romance and love celebrated worldwide. It is also known as Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, dating back to the 14th Century within the circles of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Archive for category: Renosterveld News
My Renosterveld Patch: ½ ha of botanical gems
Two years ago, I moved with my husband and soon-to-be-born baby to a 4-ha smallholding on the edge of Napier. The previous owners had farmed goats here and what remained of the veld areas on this property appeared to be quite ‘hammered’ by the goats and I had little hope that there would be much left.
Ecologist / Extension Office needed for the Overberg Renosterveld Conservation Trust
The Overberg Renosterveld Conservation Trust (ORCT) is looking for an Ecologist/Extension Officer for a three-year, full-time contract, with the option to renew subject to funding availability.
Conservation Toolkit: Environmental Education and Raising Awareness
So why is environmental education so important? How does it change lives? The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental education as:
Cape Agulhas Municipality commits to Renosterveld conservation
The Cape Agulhas Municipality has committed to protect a total of 80 hectares of Critically Endangered lowland Renosterveld and Fynbos forever. The municipality signed a Conservation Easement with the Overberg Renosterveld Conservation Trust (ORCT) on Tuesday, 3 December 2019. The signing took place in Bredasdorp.
Realising a Renosterveld learning hub for children and students
Our Haarwegskloof Renosterveld Reserve has allowed us NOT ONLY to protect Renosterveld. It has also become home to the only Renosterveld Research Centre in the world. Already more than 12 post-graduate students have used and benefited from this centre, converted following a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2014.
Volunteers needed for the creation of the first Renosterveld Herbarium
We’re looking for Renosterveld enthusiasts, who want to learn more about Renosterveld and support the Overberg Renosterveld Conservation Trust.
Harvest Blooms: Late Spring in Overberg Renosterveld
For the Overberg Renosterveld, spring is not quite over yet. As summer is around the corner and the weather starts to warm, there are still some beautiful ‘harvest blooms’ to be seen.
Quiz: A snake encounter to AVOID
Take our Renosterveld Reptile quiz this Reptile Awareness Day – and get to know some of the reptiles that live in our Renosterveld landscapes (and see why we simply can’t live without them).
Latest Renosterveld News
While Cape Town may have received a significant amount of its much-needed rains this winter, the Overberg has not fared so well. After a beautiful start to the rainy season (when we all dared to hope that the drought was at last breaking), the Overberg has been deprived of much of the rain that many Capetonians had assumed had made it further up the south coast through July and August.