With their growing demand of essential oils it was the best decision to own and not hire a steam distillation unit. The machine arrived 24 September 2020 with great excitement amongst the team.
This year Marlene Loubser from Lamara Two Rivers joined for the first time the judging tasting panel for the SA OLIVE 2020 awards. The judging event was held at Bernheim just outside of Paarl during the week of 17 – 21 August. The challenge was to taste all...
It was a proud moment when Marlene Loubser, General Manager of Lamara Franschhoek, together with oil master Gert van Dyk from Tokara Stellenbosch and Fotinin Balassis from Johannesburg, represented South Africa as one of two teams in the first Extra Virgin Olive Oil Team Championships held in Spain in...
On Sunday 30th of September there was a big festive fundraiser event held at Lakeside Paradise, Knokke for the benefit of Qhubeka. Qhubeka (www.qhubeka.org) is a non-profit organisation founded in 2005 that uses bicycles as a tool of change to connect people in schools, clinics and jobs. Qhubeka...
The harvest of 2018 has been bottled and is available as of now. The quality of the last harvest has been splendid and we are really excited to see how are clients will experience this new batch. Quantitatively, we were able to produce a larger volume so we will...
At the end of July we completed our lemon harvest. Despite the water shortage, we were able to cultivate/maintain the trees, resulting in a succesful harvest. More than 300 tons of lemons were hand picked, part of which will be exported to Europe and the Middle East. A limited...
In the first half of the year, we had a smaller harvest from our rosemary plants. For the moment we are still in a learning curve for our latest crop addition to the farm. The limited harvest we do have will be transported to an external unit where we...