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

Hoogtepunten van een verblijf in Bartholomeus Klip zijn de ochtend- en avondritten door het natuurreservaat van 10 000 hectare. Er zijn veel dieren in het wildreservaat, gemakkelijk te zien in de lage fynbos of op de grasvlakten, maar de belangrijkste bewoner van het reservaat is een veel kleiner wezen: de bedreigde geometrische schildpad, een van's werelds zeldzaamste reptielen, veilig hier in zijn laatste levensvatbare habitat nabij Kaapstad.

Onder het vogelleven van Bartholomeus Klip is's werelds grootste vogel, de struisvogel, ooit hier gekweekt in grote koppels op het hoogtepunt van de struisvogelvederboom in de jaren 1870 en vandaag een van de favoriete gerechten van de luipaard. De prachtige zwarte adelaar (juist bekend als Verreaux's adelaar) nestelt zich in de bergen, en de enorme dam in de buurt van de boerderij heeft een spectaculaire waaier van watervogels, sommige bewoner zoals de visarenden en de ijsvogels, en anderen zoals de pelikanen en de lepelbills minder regelmatige bezoekers. Flamingo's zijn ook te zien in enkele van de kleinere dammen van Bartholomeus Klip en er zijn tal van interessante grote en kleine vogels in het reservaat en op de tarwegebieden, waaronder grote kudden van de blauwe kraan, de nationale vogel van Zuid-Afrika.

Bij de dam kunt u het water in kajaks, kano's, windsurfen, vissen met zoet water of vogels spotten.

Verken het natuurreservaat van 10.000 hectare met de mountainbike, of maak een wandeling door de fynbos. Er is ook de mogelijkheid om te wandelen in de bergen om te genieten van de proteas en het vogelleven

Geniet van de boerderij en Reserveer per fiets