8.5 ha Smallholding in The Crags

Country Lifestyle farm with extremely rich biodiversity including pine forest, fynbos, meadows, orchards, gardens and lawns. Modest brick cottage with wooden floors. Only 25 of the land is developed. Suitable for market gardening, poultry, small livestock, horses etc.

This is a relatively large lifestyle farm, perfectly located on the recently tarred Redford Rd, in the heart of The Crags.

The Crags is a sought-after country lifestyle area along the Garden Route, straddling the N2 and nestled below the Tsitsikamma Mountains but within the Plettenberg Bay Municipal Area Bitou. The Crags area comprises a fine blend of private nature reserves, lifestyle farms, guest lodges, wine farms, nut farms and equestrian estates. The immediate neighbours comprise mostly smaller lifestyle farms. The Crags is the gateway to the fabled Natures Valley coastal village.

Only a quarter of the farm has been developed to include a dam, cottage, outbuildings, services, gardens, orchards, small paddocks, arboretum, roads and fencing. The remainder of the area is undeveloped and comprises some remnants of the original pine forests and the recovering fynbos. The Cottage is an old, but comfortable, three-bed brick house with wooden floors.

The Crags is surrounded by Wiskey Creek Nature Reserve and the greater Soetkraal Cape Nature Area. Inspired by the neighbouring Broome Conservancy farm, the focus of the farm has been to establish a small self-sufficient homestead surrounded by areas where the local fauna and flora are re-established. This is being done in collaboration with Redford Conservancy, which encourages the maximum retention of natural habitat and recreation of continuous wildlife corridors across boundaries, especially along the watercourses. The edges of the farm have intentionally been left a bit wild a bit juxtaposed to some of the neighbouring manicured lawns. This vision is shared by some of by the immediate neighbours, and the common boundaries are soft allowing wild animals to move about freely across farms and down into Whiskey Creek. The farm is recovering and has already developed a rich biodiversity, as recognised by visiting specialists, with all sorts of plants, insects, fish and visiting reptiles, birds and mammals. We currently keep the building restricted zone on the boundaries as fynbos. The ideal purchaser will continue this legacy of conservation.

The land is relatively flat and gently sloping with fertile clay soils. There is plenty of room to develop various farming enterprises such as poultry, horses, other livestock, market gardening, orchards etc, all in harmony with the retained natural habitat and wildlife corridors. The pines are ready to be harvested.