Tierhoek Organic
Farm in Robertson

Tierhoek cottages, offering romantic, self-catering cottages nestled at the foot of the Langeberg mountains.

Our jams and dried fruit take you back to those simple, delicious days when your grandmother baked fresh bread layered with home-made jam and offered you dried fruit still bursting with flavour. We use fresh, sun-ripened produce from our organic farms in the Noree Valley, Robertson, South Africa. What we cannot grow ourselves we source from similar certified organic farms to ensure organic integrity. No sulphur, no preservatives just healthy, delicious products full of natural goodness. We have noticed a significant increase in both insect and wildlife since we have farmed organically. We have bushbuck and klipspringer up in the mountains and guinea fowl and franklins trawling the orchards for bugs. Families of Jackal Buzzards and Black Eagles live in the mountains. At night we are visited by porcupines and owls and if we are lucky leopard or rooikat (caracal), who infrequently raid the sheep pen! While we don't like to lose our sheep it is amazing to have the leopards so near. We have worked closely with the Landmark Foundation who are monitoring the movement of leopard between the Laangeberg range and the Riviersonderend and Hermanus. This has resulted in several photographs and video evidence of leopard in our valley and the knowledge that the Cape Mountain Leopard is thriving in our area. Though they are wild and keep away from the houses baboons can do a lot of damage to the trees and fruit and we have an interesting relationship with them. Some orchards are protected by electric fences, especially the mangoes where the baboons will pull of un-ripe fruit and ruin a whole seasons fruit. In the case of the peaches and apricots we accept that we are in their space and some fruit is sacrificed to their tastebuds. If we have throw out fruit we will place it up in the kloofs and that usually keeps them away for a day or two.