New year’s resolutions often include drastic intentions which, as often, come to nothing as they demand too big a change. An easy and effective way is to commit to eating more fresh fruit and vegetables and, especially those that help reduce free-radicals which cause oxidisation - nature’s own ...

Buks Nel with his Bigbucks (Flash Gala) apples Somerset West resident Buks Nel was recognised for his outstanding contribution to agriculture in the Agricultural Writers SA’s Farmer, Agriculturist and New Entrant to Commercial Agriculture awards, held in Pretoria on November 15. Nick Serfontein ...

From left to right: Tru-Cape managing director Roelf Pienaar, Buks Nel, Tru-Cape New Variety Expert, Pieter Graaff, Tru-Cape chairman and former South African Farmer of the Year with Rossouw Cillié, Tru-Cape director and former South African Farmer of the Year Somerset West resident Buks Nel, was ...

South Africa’s largest exporter of South African apples and pears, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing has a fresh-fruit brand that is recognised in 104 countries around the globe. In its on-going attempt to punch above its weight class when it comes to targeting the hearts and minds of consumers, it has ...

                                                                 An image of the Witte Wijn as described by Knoop in Fructologia For the first time in hundreds of years the progeny of the first apple picked at the Cape is back on South African soil. Although still in quarantine until 2019, the ...

Texel is an island in the North Sea off Holland known for its beauty and fertile lands. Third generation apple and pear grower, Pieter Reuvers decided to change the name of his Highlands, Grabouw farm from  Breevlei to Texel in honour of his grandfather’s birthplace. Roots and family life are ...