FYNBOS MOUNTAIN ESTATE
Accommodation Services in Malmesbury

We planned to grow and sell grapes and make a few bottles of wine for fun. But if we thought we could sit on our veranda and watch the grapes grow, life had other plans for us, and we have participated with delight, in a journey towards not only increased sustainability, but into a hive of activities involving many new spaces and a wide range of people. Thus currently we make natural hand-crafted wines in the old style of the 1900s as well as organic olive and lemon products. We host guests for getaways, retreats, workshops, fairs, music festivals, weddings and other celebrations, and we cook up a storm of seasonal homemade country food using seasonal and locally sourced ingredients. Perhaps most exciting has been turning the wonderful wild mountain land of the farm into a gazetted nature reserve. Another is a determined pursuit to reduce our footprint and to use the farm to encourage conservation and wilderness education. Most of all these eighteen years have been a great adventure for Johan and me, and however demanding, we would not have exchanged it for anything. That Johan, and Andy our annually visiting UK winemaker, have many harvests from which to make delicious wine. That we get to restock the reserve with indigenous animals. But most of all we wish that the abundance of Fynbos and its beauty and peace will continue into the future to inspire people in positive and different ways. By training a molecular biologist, Johan has realised a life-long ambition to farm and make wine. Diana has always dreamed of living in a nature reserve and of having a small farmyard of animals. Diana and Johan are also involved in community development in the area and work on various conservation projects. There is currently one child living on the farm, Nadia Majaja. Vital to the smooth running and the laughter of Fynbos is Gail Honiball who does everything from VAT returns to feeding the dogs. She is also a very experienced Events Co-ordinator and will be the person facilitating the smooth running of your big day. And then there is a group of lovely, lively people who add to the permanent staff to form our Events Team. Volunteers are often roped in to help, and many consider this one of the highlights of their stay at Fynbos. Lisa du Plooy gives us a hand with all sorts of marketing and design tasks and Johann Human has created and maintains our website. We are currently expanding our marketing team (so watch this space! Fynbos is a member of WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) and we have found this to be a hugely rewarding experience. We have had more than a hundred volunteers over the years, from all over the globe, and we value their contributions enormously. We have made many friends amongst the WWOOFers some of whom keep returning as part of Fynbos family.