CAMISSA FARM

We are delighted to be able to share this transformative journey with the guests who stay in our five cottages... At Camissa, we farm on a small scale and you may notice that our orchards are mixed. Olives, almonds, lemons, rosemary, garlic, rose-geranium, avos, walnuts, macadamia, and asparagus live happily together. This is to promote diversity and confuse the pests thereby reducing our need to spray. We have a growing herd of grass-fed Dexter cattle and Hampshire Downs sheep that mow the oats between the orchard rows... Camissa Farm, which means "place of sweet water" in Khoekhoe, is located in the Banhoek valley between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek. It is high in the mountains, up in the clouds with a stunning view into the valley itself and across the landscaped orchards of the valley floor to the Simonsberg and Drakenzicht mountains. Despite feeling as if we are far from anywhere, we are actually only eight minutes from Stellies