When the summer sun is at its highest and hottest, ’tis the season for harvesting almonds. A dedicated team of pickers harvests the nuts by hand, by gently tapping the trees and collecting the fallen nuts (hulls and fruit) onto long shades of cloth.

The Elandsberg sheep flock produces an average of 500 lambs every year. This is the prefect opportunity to join our Sunday family lunch offering at the Deckhouse, with a gentle stroll afterwards to see the cute lambs and proud moms! Please make sure to book so that we can look forward to welcoming you to the farm. Every year our Merino sheep flock to the big shed near the Farmhouse for what they believe is a relaxing spa treatment, but turns out to be a vigorous haircut and a not-so-relaxing deep tissue massage ?? The 4000 Merino sheep are kept primarily for their wool. Guests at Bartholomeus Klip particularly enjoy the lambing time (usually after the early winter rains, when there is grazing for the ewes), and like to visit the shearers in the big shed near to the farmhouse, where the wool is shorn, graded and packed into bales

Join our resident game and nature experts on a tour of interactive conservation projects. The Geometric Tortoises Rehabilitation Project was set up after a fire swept through the Elandsberg Nature reserve in 2012, and aims to research, protect and ensure survival of this rarest and most endangered reptile in Southern Africa.

The Quagga Project is the amazing story of a once extinct subspecies of the Plains Zebra that was brought back to life and into its former habitat by a group of dedicated scientists and farmers. This project, started in 1987 by a group of dedicated people in South Africa, has successfully brought back an animal from extinction and reintroduced it into reserves in its former habitat. By selective breeding from a selected founder population of southern Plains Zebras an attempt is being made to retrieve at least the genes responsible for the Quagga’s characteristic striping pattern.

10,000 acres of untouched natural wonder, home to 150 bird species and 70 mammal, amphibia and reptile species. A private sanctuary in the heart of the Cape Floristic Region, with over 840 plant species, including endangered fynbos, renosterveld, and the rare, endemic Elandsmontana. At Elandsberg, conservation isn’t just a mission – it’s a legacy. We’re proud to be the founding breeder of the Quagga, once extinct and now running wild again, and a guardian of the critically endangered Geometric Tortoise.

The Elandsberg Nature Reserve is part of the Cape Floristic Region, which is one of the world’s six floral kingdoms and the smallest of these by far, but extraordinarily rich in species of flowering plants. The particular flora in our reserve is so special that it has been declared a provincial nature reserve, as well as a Natural Heritage Site, to safeguard it. Some of the flowering plants that grow at Elandsberg, including species that belong to the Amaryllis, Iris, Geranium, Mollugo, and Pea families, can only be found here, and have formally been named elandsmontana

Les moments forts d'un séjour au Bartholomeus Klip sont les parcours naturels du matin et du soir à travers la réserve naturelle de 10 000 acres. Il y a beaucoup d'animaux dans la réserve de gibier, facilement visibles dans les fynbos bas ou dans les plaines herbeuses, mais l'habitant le plus important de la réserve est une créature beaucoup plus petite : la tortue géométrique menacée, l'un des reptiles les plus rares au monde, en sécurité ici dans son dernier habitat viable près du Cap.

Parmi les oiseaux de Bartholomeus Klip se trouve le plus grand oiseau du monde, l'autruche, autrefois cultivée ici en gros troupeaux, au sommet du boom de la plume d'autruche dans les années 1870 et aujourd'hui l'un des aliments préférés du léopard. Le magnifique aigle noir (à juste titre connu sous le nom d'aigle de Verreaux) niche dans les montagnes, et l'énorme barrage près de la ferme a un tableau spectaculaire d'oiseaux aquatiques, certains résidents comme les aigles et les martins-pêcheurs, et d'autres comme les pélicans et les cuillerées moins visiteurs réguliers. Des flamants roses ont également été observés dans certains des barrages plus petits de Bartholomeus Klip et il y a une foule d'oiseaux intéressants, grands et petits, dans la réserve et dans les terres de blé, y compris de grands troupeaux de grue bleue, oiseau national d'Afrique du Sud.

Au bord du barrage, vous pourrez prendre l'eau en kayak, en canoës, ou faire de la planche à voile, de la pêche en eau douce ou de l'observation des oiseaux.

Explorez la réserve naturelle de 10 000 acres en VTT ou faites une promenade en douceur à travers les fynbos. Il y a aussi la possibilité de faire de la randonnée dans les montagnes pour profiter des proteas et de la vie des oiseaux

Profitez de la ferme et de la réserve à vélo