We’d love to use this opportunity to share our latest blog posts, recipes from PJ Vadas, yummy product news, our Farmer Angus family and friends, and a little inspiration from me.
Latest blog posts
We are more than a year into mulching our vineyards with chicken feathers. What started off as an experiment is now a cornerstone of our vineyard management program. Mulch is a soil cover of organic material. We tried for years to find sheep’s wool so that we could do what Johnny Ferreira does in the Eastern Cape on his lemon orchards (he mulches with sheep’s wool and does nothing else except harvest lemons twice a year). It took a visit from some Kenyan farmers to get us to experiment with feathers and not wool.
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Farm to plate
Did you know we sell liquid eggs, ideal for omelettes and scrambling?
When laying hens come into lay (which our Eggmobile inhabiting hens do every 16 weeks), they start by laying small eggs called pullet eggs. Because we have yet not found a market for these eggs, and instead of feeding them to our pigs we break them into a bowl, whisk, sieve and then pour into a 1-litre container and freeze. Ready for you to use.
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Cooking with PJ Vadas
Breakfast needn’t be boring. Try these delicious and easy to make Bacon and Egg Pesto Cups. They are healthy and yummy and great for kids lunch boxes.
Next time you visit Spier make sure you book a table for breakfast, lunch or dinner at Vadas Smokehouse & Bakery. Check out the rest of our menu at https://www.vadas.co.za/menu
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Farmer Angus family and friends
Johnny Ferreira of Soga Organic, inspired us to use chicken feathers on our vineyards. To some, he is known as the ”soil toiler”. He uses only sheep’s wool to mulch his lemon orchards which produce the most delicious fruit. Besides organic citrus, he also farms organic pomegranates, beef, small dairy, bees and pastured chickens.
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What inspires me
I am totally inspired by Charles Massy and his Call of the Reed Warbler. He speaks from his own real experiences of having made big, positive and hard changes in his life. As well as travelling the globe and documenting the healing effects of regenerative agriculture. He draws on his decades of farming experience and research to propose new ways of farming that don’t harm the land and the planet in the way industrial agricultural practices can.
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